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Psyche 
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Lower metapleuron: mostly smooth and shining with many tiny, 
sparse punctures that become larger and denser, with a little inter- 
calated wrinkling, only dorsad near the obsolete pleural carina; 
without juxta-coxal or, in paratype, with juxta-coxal carina de- 
fined only on basal 1/3. Propodeum: smooth and polished basad 
of basal trans-carina, otherwise rather coarsely and irregularly 
wrinkled; basal trans-carina almost straight; apical trans-carina in 
holotype irregularly traceable between the broad and moderately 
projecting triangular cristae and in paratype sharp but only slightly 
curved forward between the lower, more cuneate cristae. First gas- 
tric segment: postpetiole 0.87 as wide at apex as long from spiracle 
to apex; its surface smooth and polished with a few tiny, scattered 
punctures. 
TYPE: The holotype is in the collection of Henry K. Townes, 
5950 Warren Rd., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105 and the paratype 
in the collection of Charles C. Porter, 301 N. 39th St., McAllen, 
Texas, 78501. 
RELATIONSHIPS: In habitus and color this species resembles D. 
picta and D. aspila but may be separated from both by its much 
longer malar space and by chromatic features such as its entirely 
black scape and uniformly pale fulvous propodeal base. 
FIELD NOTES: Taken by sweeping Serjania vines in a partial clear- 
ing near the edge of a Celtis lindheimeri-C. pallida thicket and in 
a Malaise Trap located in deep shade beneath a large Pithecellob- 
ium flexicaule. 
SPECIFIC NAME: From the Greek noun pareia or “cheek,” in ref- 
erence to the long malar space. 
21. Diapetimorpha introita (Cresson) 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 15 females, 12 males: BENTSEN PARK 
{Net: 3 females, 1 male, 12-20 III ’77; 1 male, 7 IX ’76); BOTANICAL 
GARDEN {Net: 1 female, 17 I ’75; 6 females, 4 males, 12-20 III ’77; 
1 male, 5 IV 74; 1 male, 16-30 V 74; 1 male, 30 VIII 76; 1 male, 
1 IX 73; 1 female, 9 IX 76; 4 females, 20-31 XII 74; Malaise: 1 
male, IX 73; 1 male, X 73). 
HABITAT: Open, sunny places; tall grass at edge of fields and 
thickets; herbaceous growth in abandoned orange groves; occa- 
sionally enters dense woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: N.C. to Tex. and into Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 
