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Psyche 
[March 
meso and metanotal axillary troughs; tegula; subalarum; very broad 
oblique band across mesopleuron from mid-height of front margin 
to lower hind corner; about upper 1/3 of mesepimeron; a pair of 
very large blotches covering much of mesosternum on each side 
of median groove and confluent posterio-dorsad with white meso- 
pleural band; most of dorsal metapleuron; about dorso-posterior 
3/4 of lower metapleuron; and a pair of broad propodeal stripes 
which extend dorsad from hind margin to include cristae and then 
reach forward, a little more narrowly, almost to basal trans-carina; 
first gastric tergite black with yellowish white dorsally on much of 
petiole and on about apical 1/2 of postpetiole as well as laterally 
toward apex of petiole and on most of postpetiole; second tergite 
black with a brown tinged yellowish white band on base, abruptly 
widened sublaterally to cover thyridia, as well as broadly yellowish 
white laterally and on apical 1/3; third and fourth tergites black 
with very broad apical and lateral yellowish white bands; fifth and 
sixth mostly yellowish white grading into black dorsad; seventh 
similar to preceding but more broadly black dorsally; eighth and 
ninth black with yellowish white laterally and on apical rims; fore 
and mid coxae white with black on most of apical 1/2 posteriorly; 
hind coxa yellowish white with a broad, percurrent anterio-dorsal 
black band and a similar but premedially interrupted posterio- 
dorsal band as well as blackish on extreme base ventrally; tro- 
chanters and trochantelli whitish with considerable black above; 
femora yellowish white with a broad, percurrent dorsal black band; 
tibiae yellow with some dusky staining posterio-basally on front 
and mid tibiae and a little more broadly blackish on base of hind 
tibia; fore and mid tarsi with first segment yellow with a little 
dusky staining apicad and succeeding segments blackish except 
narrowly yellow on base of second; hind tarsus with segments 1-4 
yellow and 5 mostly black except grading into brownish on base; 
and wings hyaline with stigma black. 
Length of fore wing: 10.7 mm. Flagellum: definitely flattened 
below on apical 1/3, its widest segments 1.5 as wide as long, the 
first segment 5.7 as long as deep at apex. Malar space: 0.71 as 
long as basal width of mandible. Temple: 0.4 as long as eye at 
upper 1/3; strongly and directly receding. Front: horns stout and 
broad, not on a common base; strongly wrinkled between level of 
horns and anterior ocellus. Clypeus: strongly and a little asym- 
metrically convex in profile; apical margin slightly convex. Pro- 
