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Psyche 
[March 
HABITAT: Herbaceous undergrowth in dense woods. 
DISTRIBUTION: N.Y. to Fla. west to Wis., Ks., Tex., and Nuevo 
Leon state of Mexico. 
GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION: Specimens from Mexico and the Valley 
have the female hind coxa white with a black area above, black 
narrowly throughout on base, and with a large black blotch on 
basal half anterio-ventrally. In material from eastern North Amer- 
ica the female hind coxa is fulvous with a more or less well devel- 
oped whitish dorsal blotch. 
PHAENOLOGY: Valley records are for December, January and 
April. Elsewhere it flies mainly from spring to fall. 
29. Lymeon leucosoma (Cameron) 
(Fig. 3) 
FEMALE: Color: scape pale fulvous; pedicel pale fulvous to 
dusky; flagellum with first segment pale fulvous to dull brownish 
grading into blackish on apical 1/2, second and third segments 
black with a little brownish below, fourth black with a little white 
on apical 1/3, fifth through eighth white with some pale brownish 
below, ninth black with white on basal 1/3 above and brownish 
below, and succeeding segments dull brownish with some dusky 
staining on the more basal ones and paler apicad; head black with 
pale brown on mandibular condyles and face and clypeus some- 
times largely stained with pale fulvous and with mandible mostly 
white on basal 2/3 but on apical 1/3 grading through pale brown 
into black; palpi whitish brown; mesosoma rather opaquely pale 
fulvous with some black basad in mesonotal axillary trough, a little 
dusky staining in some other areas, and with white broadly on all 
but about lateral 1/5 of front margin of pronotum, dully anteriad 
on tegula, on most of subalarum, vaguely toward top of mesepim- 
eron, sometimes weakly on sides of scutellum and on postscutel- 
lum, and on propodeal cristae; gaster rather opaquely pale fulvous 
with slight dusky tinging; legs pale fulvous, duller on tibiae and 
tarsi, and dusky on fifth tarsomeres; wings hyaline, the fore wing 
with a median brown crossband occupying basal 1/2 of discocubital 
cell, extreme base of second discoidal cell, about apical 3/4 of first 
brachial cell and extending briefly into base of second brachial cell, 
as well as with a subapical brown cross band that covers apical 1/4 
of radial cell, almost median 1/2 of third cubital cell, and about 
dorso-median 1 / 3 of third discoidal cell; stigma brownish white. 
