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Psyche 
[Sept.-Dee. 
area; abdominal terga more closely punctured than in female, 
abruptly more coarsely punctured on third and following terga 
than on first two, punctures contiguous on posterior terga; pro- 
file of sixth tergum slightly elevated apically; first abdominal 
sternum with posterior margin rounded, in profile with gentle 
convexity about two-thirds of its length from base to apex; fifth 
Fig. 1, Lower part of face of female Heriades currani, one mandible omitted; 
Fig. 2, Profile of first abdominal sternum of male Heriades currani , base at left. 
sternum with an acutely pointed median process laterad of which 
lie the usual rows of long capitate hairs; sixth sternum but little 
down-curved at apex, subapical hairs rather numerous and long, 
extending beyond margin of sternum. 
Holotype female, Panama, Republic of Panama, February 
to March, 1915; allotype male, Patilla Point, Canal Zone, 
Panama, January 15, 1929, collected by Dr. C. H. Curran after 
whom this species is named. Both specimens are in the col- 
lection of The American Museum of Natural History. 
In the revision of American Heriades (Michener, 1938, Ann. 
Ent. Soc. Am., 31: 514-531) this species runs clearly to the 
subgenus Neotrypetes. In the key to the species of that sub- 
genus the male runs best to leavitti Crawford, a form differing 
from currani by the dark wings, longer first flagellar segment, 
etc. The female as well as the male seems most closely related 
to H. crucifera Cockerell from New Mexico and Arizona, al- 
though because of the proximity of the premarginal tubercles 
of the clypeus it will not run to that species in the key. It differs 
further from crucifera by the less strongly angular malar area, 
the somewhat differently arranged carinae near the bases of the 
