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Psyche 
[September 
Mandibles finely longitudinally striate at their external 
borders. Sculpture of head and promesonotum decidedly 
coarser than in any of the forms of a bstinens, consisting 
of the basal microscopic reticulation overlaid by a regular 
polygonally reticulate rugosity, without rounded foveolae in 
the meshes. The rugae are distinctly longitudinal on the 
front of the head. Thimble-punctuation of the scrobes, 
neck, pleurae, epinotum and ventral portions of the petiole 
and postpetiole finer than in abstinens venustula; the nodes 
subopaque, finely and densely punctate. 
Pilosity pale yellowish, in length and distribution like 
that of the subsp. hackeri. 
Thorax, pedicel and gaster yellowish ferruginous, the 
head somewhat darker and more brownish ; mandibles, an- 
tennae and legs, including the coxae, brownish yellow ; man- 
dibular teeth brown. 
Described from a single specimen taken by Mr. A. M. 
Lea “among fallen leaves” in the Cairns District, Queens- 
land. 
