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Psyche 
[February 
weak, set far apart, just above the antenna: bristles of upper 
row very large and curving backward very strongly. Second to 
fifth abdominal segments of about equal length, the third wider 
than the second; third and fourth narrower, the base of the 
fifth only two-thirds as wide as the second; sixth small; seventh 
to ninth fleshy, completely retractile. Transverse row of bristles 
Fig. 1. Tranopeltoxenos manni sp. nov. 9 
on second segment placed before the middle, those of the third 
behind the middle, of the fourth and fifth some distance before 
the apex; sixth with a dense fringe at the apex. 
Described from two specimens, taken in a nest of Tranopelta 
gilva, var. amhlyops by Dr. W. M. Mann during December 1921 
at Tumupasa, Bolivia. Type No. 25904, United States National 
Museum. 
