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Psyche 
[March- June 
mahogany-reddish brown and black pilose. The tarsi light 
brownish yellow with black pile Wings : apical third brown, 
base of the sigmal cell yellow, the costal and first basal cell 
lighter yellow; anterior cross vein narrowly infuscated, a 
light cloud of brown on lower part of origin of the third 
vein. 
Holotype : One female. Brazil, without further data. 
Volucella clara n. sp. 
Similar to pallens Wied., the pattern of abdominal spots 
is different, the face is shorter ; the arista with thirteen rays. 
Female. Length 6 mm. Head: ocellar triangle is dark 
brown to black; the vertex and front and face and cheeks 
light, brownish-yellow ; the pile is wholly light shining yel- 
low. Facial tubercle is quite low and broadly rounded, 
densely pilose but the face is almost bare above the tubercle 
and below the antennae except for some pale pubescence. 
The antennae are orange, the arista pale yellow at base, the 
rays and the apical portion blackish; with eleven longer 
rays and three shorter basal ones. Thorax: translucent 
reddish-brown ; originally appears to have been light, shin- 
ing clay-yellow with several shining light reddish-brown 
vittae; pile copious, subappressed and long and wholly pale 
golden ; all scutellar and thoraic bristles are light golden. 
No differentiated bristles before the scutellum; scutellum 
with three pairs. The lower part of the mesopleura and 
pteropleurae and all but the upper ends of the sternopleurae 
and metapleura are shining black; metanotum black. Ab- 
domen: short, broad, almost round, considerable wider than 
the thorax and somewhat discolored. The first segment is 
light translucent brown; the second of the same color but 
with a conspicuous, black, posterior, marginal fascia from 
side to side and narrowly connected in the midline with a 
narrow median vitta of black. The median vittae narrowly 
reaches the basal margin of the segment. The pile of the 
second segment is black on the black areas and light yellow 
elsewhere. The third segment and the fourth, while dis- 
colored, appear to be almost wholly light reddish, shining 
brown with, on the outer posterior marginal fourth on either 
side, black fascia that reach the lateral margin and are 
