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Psyche 
[September 
Integument uniformly black, the antennae faintly blotched 
with rufous. Pruinosity dull, grayish-black dorsally, ashy 
gray ventrally and beneath the transverse band of pale 
hairs at the base of the abdomen ; the humeral angles with 
a grayish-white pollinose area sharply set off from the 
remainder of the dorsum; there are faint indications of 
the beginning of two yellowish-gray stripes at the anterior 
margin of the thorax close to the head; otherwise thorax 
and abdomen appear unspotted. Body densely covered 
Fig. 1. Hirmoneura cockerelli J. Bequaert. A, wing; B, head 
seen in front; C, antenna. 
with rather short pilosity, which is black on frons, dark 
brown dorsally on thorax and most of abdomen, pale gray- 
ish-yellow on the sides, ventrally, on the face, and on first 
and second antennal segments; a broad transverse band 
of whitish, somewhat silvery, long, erect hairs covers the 
apical half of the first and the basal half of the second 
abdominal tergites; there are long tufts of pale yellowish 
hairs on the sides of the thorax behind the bases of the 
wings. 
Head (Fig. IB) large, flattened, hemispherical in profile, 
about as wide as high seen in front, hardly broader than 
the thorax. Eyes uniformly covered with short, pale yel- 
lowish hairs, distinctly separated throughout by a narrow 
frons which is only slightly narrower than the ocellar tri- 
angle; the upper half of the frons is almost parallel-sided, 
but narrowest just below the anterior ocellus; the lower 
