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Psyche 
[December 
posterior angle, a narrow fascia on each side on anterior 
margin, three round spots along base, and a rounded spot at 
middle near anterior margin; elytra purplish brown, each 
elytron with two broad, irregular, reddish-yellow vittse, the 
lateral one extending from humeral angle to near apex, and 
the sutural one from near base to apical fifth ; body beneath 
brownish cupreous, with the prosternum, median parts of 
metasternum and mesosternum, femora in part, and trans- 
verse fasciae on the sternites, reddish yellow. 
Head nearly flat, purplish brown, with a transverse yel- 
low spot on each side at vertex and several irregular yellow 
spots behind the clypeus, and with a short carina on the 
front; surface coarsely, irregularly, confluently punctate, 
sparsely clothed with short, erect, inconspicuous hairs ; eyes 
feebly converging above; clypeus broadly, arcuately emar- 
ginate in front. 
Pronotum twice as wide as long, distinctly narrower at 
apex than at base, widest near base; sides sinuate and 
strongly, obliquely diverging from apical angles to near 
posterior angles, which are broadly rounded ; anterior mar- 
gin broadly, arcuately emarginate, with the median lobe 
broadly, feebly rounded ; base transversely sinuate ; surface 
slightly uneven, coarsely, deeply, irregularly punctate, with 
a few short, inconspicuous hairs at posterior angles, the in- 
tervals smooth. Scutellum quadrate, truncate in front, 
broadly rounded behind. 
Elytra slightly wider than base of pronotum ; sides feebly 
expanded behind the humeri, feebly converging to apical 
third, then strongly, arcuately converging to the tips, which 
are separately transversely truncate, with a small tooth at 
each angle; surface striato-punctate, the striae not deeply 
impressed, the punctures fine and closely placed in the striae ; 
intervals feebly convex, coarsely, irregularly punctate, and 
the intervals toward the sides more or less rugose. 
Abdomen beneath coarsely, irregularly punctate, sparsely 
clothed with short, semierect, white hairs, the intervals ob- 
soletely granulose ; first sternite longitudinally flattened at 
middle ; last visible sternite sinuately rounded at apex. 
Prosternum coarsely, sparsely punctate, sparsely clothed 
with short, recumbent, whitish hairs; prosternal process 
