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Psyche 
[March 
bluntly triangular cristae, between the cristae advanced far forward 
but, except for a short median segment, practically effaced. First 
gastric segment: postpetiole 0.91 as wide at apex as long from 
spiracle to apex; tergite smooth and shining with a few tiny, scat- 
tered punctures. 
TYPE: The holotype is in the collection of Henry K. Townes, 
5950 Warren Rd., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48501. 
RELATIONSHIPS: Aspila closely resembles D. picta but may be 
distinguished by the characters summarized in the key. 
FIELD NOTES: Collected by Malaise Trap in a partially shaded 
Celt is lindheimeri-C. pallida thicket. 
SPECIFIC NAME: from the Greek adjective aspilos or “unspotted”, 
in reference to the uniformly black propodeal base of this species. 
20. Diapetimorpha pareia n. sp. 
(Fig. 7) 
Holotype: male, USA (Texas: Hidalgo County, Valley Botani- 
cal Garden at McAllen, 1 I ’76, C. C. Porter). (Townes). Paratype: 
male, USA (Texas: Hidalgo County, Bentsen Rio Grande Valley 
State Park, 15-30 IV ’76, Malaise Trap, C. C. Porter). (Porter). 
FEMALE: unknown. 
MALE: Color: antenna black with a pale yellow annulus on fla- 
gellomeres 9-18 or 19; palpi white; head white with black, preceded 
by a narrow brownish zone, on apical 1/3 of mandible, a small 
dusky spot just above dorsal corner of clypeus, a little dusky around 
anterior tentorial pits, and black on median 1/2 of front and vertex, 
more broadly on occiput, on all but ventral corner of postocciput, 
and ventrad, increasingly more narrowly, on temple along occipital 
carina to about its upper 0.5; propleuron white; pronotum black 
with a broad white band on all but extreme hind corner of front 
margin, a narrow white band on anterior 2/3 of humeral margin, 
and with white on upper hind corner, or sometimes white narrowly 
throughout on humeral margin; thoracic dorsum black with a large 
more or less rectangular postmedian white spot on mesoscutum, 
and with white on scutellum, postscutellum, and hind rims of meso 
and metanotal axillary troughs as well as with some yellowish stain- 
ing anteriorly in metanotal axillary trough on each side of post- 
scutellum; tegula white; mesosternum and mesopleuron pale yellow, 
becoming more nearly white anterio-dorsally on mesopleuron, as 
