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Psyche 
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SPECIFIC NAME: From the genitive of the Greek noun sphen 
{sphenos) or “wedge”, in reference to the shape of the propodeal 
cristae. 
18. Diapetimorpha picta Townes 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 2 males, BENTSEN PARK {Net: 1 female, 
17 III ’76; 1 male, 17 III ’77). 
HABITAT: Serjania vines in Salix nigra woods along Rio Grande. 
DISTRIBUTION. Previously recorded only from Florida and south 
Georgia (Townes, 1962, p. 387). Among material loaned by Townes 
is a male from Kansas (Clark County, 12 VI ’60, R. L. Fischer). 
Picta thus probably ranges over the southeastern U.S. and into 
Mexico. 
19. Diapetimorpha aspila n. sp. 
(Fig. 4) 
Holotype: female, USA {Texas: Hidalgo County, Valley Botani- 
cal Garden at McAllen, XII ’73, Malaise Trap, C. C. Porter). 
FEMALE: unknown. 
MALE: Color: antenna black with scape broadly white below, a 
little brown on apex of pedicel and base of first flagellomere, and 
a white annulus on flagellomeres 9-15; palpi white with a pale 
brownish tinge; mandible white with apical 1/3 dark brown; head 
white with black on median 1/2 of front and vertex, more broadly 
on occiput, on postocciput, and ventrad increasingly more nar- 
rowly along occipital carina to about its lower 0.1; propleuron 
white; pronotum black with a very broad white band throughout 
on anterior margin, a much narrower and apically attenuate white 
band on most of humeral margin, and a little white on upper hind 
corner; thoracic dorsum black with a large, more or less rectangu- 
lar, anteriorly deeply emarginate postmedian white blotch on meso- 
scutum, and with white on scutellum, postscutellum, and hind rims 
of meso and metanotal axillary troughs; tegula white; mesopleuron 
black with white on subalarum and on most of its lower 3/4 apicad 
of prepectal carina, except for a large, irregular black blotch below 
speculum and for black in about upper 0.7 of pleural suture; meso- 
sternum black on prepectus and otherwise white with a little 
brownish staining in front of mid coxae; upper metapleuron white 
except for black on its narrow lower 1 / 3; lower metapleuron white 
