76 
Psyche 
[April 
shining; central area of cap brown, outer rim brown with min- 
ute, regular, white reticulations; extension of the chorion white 
with dark lines, brown towards the inner edge; shape, sub- 
illiptical, narrowed towards the cap; central area of the cap 
raised, cone-like, bluntly rounded at the tip, composed of sev- 
eral scales which fail to meet at the tip; outer rim of the cap 
flat with minute, regular reticulations; extension of the chorion 
on the same plane with the outer rim of the cap in new laid 
eggs, after hatching or drying bending upwards or downwards, 
squamose, minutely so towards the inner border, gradually 
coarser outwards, edge sinuate; chorial processes numerous, 
elongate, club-shaped, within the extension of the chorion. 
First Instar Nymph. Length 1.8 mm.; Color dark brown to 
black, the antennae, except the basal half of the first segment, 
the apical half of the middle and posterior tibiae and all the tarsi 
brownish; eyes red; body smooth, shining, plates of the head 
and thorax strong and heavy, closely united; head oblong, as 
long as the thorax, wider and elevated behind the eyes, then 
depressed and narrowing into a neck of moderate length; anten- 
nae cylindrical, 4-jointed, as long as or slightly longer than the 
body, first and last joints subequal, second and third united less 
than the first, minutely and sparsely ciliate, the basal joint less 
so, hairs light brown; beak very stout at base, gradually nar- 
rowing, attaining the front coxae; pro and mesothorax each 
provided with a stout spine each side the median line, as long as 
one fourth the length of the prothorax and separated by about 
their own length, directed upwards; anterior legs with very stout 
femora, enlarged towards the apex, with several stout, sharp 
spines arranged in rows, those towards the apex larger, each 
with a hair arising from the apex, sparsely pilose, the hairs long; 
tibiae slender with three blunt spines beneath, more densely 
pilose than the femora; middle and posterior legs somewhat 
shorter and more slender, moderately pilose; abdomen short, 
somewhat more than half the length of the thorax, rounded, 
somewhat flattened, the edges moderately undulated and sparse- 
ly fringed with tufts of hairs. 
