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Psyche 
[June- Sept. 
long, tip truncate, rebordered; maxillse more than twice 
as long as labium, slightly divergent, tips widened ; sternum 
triangular, pale, mottled with dark gray; abdomen dark, 
very high at base, short and blobose with two pairs of 
widely separated conical angles, slightly chitinized, first pair 
fully two-thirds from base, venter dark with a few pale 
spots; legs, 1-2-4-3, anterior pairs longest, dark with pale 
rings at base and middle of tibise, posterior pairs with 
femora pale except for a dark ring at tip, spines slender 
and inconspicuous, I pair, femur, dorsal, 1 median, 3 pro- 
lateral, ventral, 0, patella, 1 at tip, tibia, dorsal, 2, basal 
and median, prolateral, 2, retrolateral, 2, ventral, 0, meta- 
tarsus, ventral, 1 prolateral at base, II pair, femur, 0, pa- 
tella, 0, tibia, dorsal, 1 median, retrolateral, 2, ventral, 0; 
epigynum a transverse elongate oval, fully three times as 
Fig. 1. Nicholasia pentagon a (Hentz). A. Ventral view of left palpus 
( $ ). B. Ventral view of epigynum ( $ ). 
