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Psyche 
[March 
carina obsolete, weakly suggested only near base. Propodeum: basal 
trans-carina rather strongly curved forward medially; apical trans- 
carina curved far forward and slightly to markedly irregular medi- 
ally, its cristae broadly and strongly projecting cuneate; surface with 
strong reticulate wrinkling that is finer basad of basal trans-carina. 
First gastric segment : postpetiole 1.1 -1.3 as wide apically as long 
from spiracle to apex. Ovipositor: sheathed portion 0.42-0.48 as 
long as fore wing; tip 0.23-0.24 as high at nodus as long from 
nodus to apex. 
MALE: Color: scape pale brownish to whitish with a little dusky 
staining dorsad; pedicel dark brown with apex paler; flagellum dark 
brown, becoming gradually a little paler apicad; palpi white; man- 
dible white with dark brown on apical 1/3; head black with white 
on clypeus, face, broad frontal orbits, very broad hind orbit of 
about 1/2 of eye, and throughout from malar space to hypostomal 
carina; propleuron white; pronotum white with a very large black 
area apico-laterally; thoracic dorsum black with tegula white and 
with a large, transverse, anteriorly emarginate postmedian white 
blotch on mesoscutum, and with white on scutellum, postscutellum, 
and narrow hind margins of meso and metanotal axillary troughs; 
mesopleuron black with white on subalarum and speculum and 
with more or less whitish stained fulvous on most of lower 1 / 3 of 
mesepisternum behind prepectal carina as well as throughout on 
mesepimeron; mesosternum testaceous-stained white except black 
anteriad of prepectal carina; upper metapleuron white; mesosoma 
otherwise pale fulvous to yellowish with hind face of propodeum 
more whitish; gaster pale fulvous with dark brown to black on 
extreme base of petiole, on basal half of segment 2, and on basal 
1 /3 of 3, as well as with paler brown to equally dark brown or black 
on basal 1/4 of 4-6 and dusky on much of 7; fore leg with coxa, 
trochanter, and trochantellus white, femur and tibia pallid fulvous, 
and tarsus whitish with fifth segment dusky and a little dusky above 
on third and fourth segments; mid leg similar to fore leg but with 
light fulvous staining dorsad on coxa, trochanter, and trochantellus 
and with tarsus largely dusky except for whitish narrowly on tips 
and bases of segments 2-4 and with segment 1 dull fulvous grading 
into dusky on apical 1/2 with tip whitish; and hind leg pale fulvous 
with considerable blackish on trochanter, sometimes slightly dusky 
on apex of trochantellus and base of femur, tibia a little dusky at 
base and dusky stained on most of apical 2/3 except below, and 
