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Psyche 
[April 
Prothorax extremely suppressed. Scutellar protuberance short, 
one-third the length of the scutellum, terminating in two short, 
asymmetrical prongs separated by a distance greater than their 
length. A wide reticulate-rugose channel extending from the 
base of the protuberance to the anterior border of the metascu- 
Fig. 1. Schizaspidia polyrhachicida n. sp. 9 , A, wings; B, lateral view; C, head in 
front view; D, metascutellar p^rotuberance in dorsal view. 
turn, where it is dilated into a deep pit surrounded by a ridge. 
Wings hyaline, reaching a little beyond the apex of the abdomen. 
Apical three-fifths of fore wing and entire hind wing finely hairy. 
