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Psyche 
[Sept. 
Female. Head: Face and front black, largely shining, 
the former with a very large, rounded, shining tubercle 
leaving the face deeply concave above. Upper portion 
of the face and narrowly along the sides of the eye mar- 
gin above the tubercle, together with a diagonal stripe 
from the lower eye margin to the epistoma all greyish 
white pubescent. Pile of face long and yellowish white. 
Lower frontal pile yellowish with some black hairs inter- 
mixed, the pile becoming entirely black on the upper part 
of the front and vertex. There is a narrow, complete 
band of pale brownish yellow to yellowish white pollen 
across the front before the anterior ocellus and a similar 
narrow band across the middle of the front. The inter- 
vening area is opaque black but the transverse margins 
of these pollinose bands are irregular. The front has a 
crescentic, transverse crease just above the low short 
callus. The antennae are very dark sepia becoming black- 
ish on the dorsal half of the quite large third antennal 
segment. Third segment dark reddish below. Arista 
dark red and bare. Eyes with sparse, pale brown pile. 
Thorax: mesonotum dull in color and largely obscure 
yellowish grey pollinose. There is a diffuse, obscure, 
blackish spot in front of the suture on either side of the 
mesonotum. There is a larger, subtriangular, similarly 
opaque black spot widely bordering the posterior margin 
of the suture; this spot is widely separated from the 
spot upon the other side of the mesonotum and each ex- 
tends posteriorly for a short distance towards the corners 
of the scutellum. This opaque black spot is rounded 
posteriorly but tends to fade out and become indistinct. 
From the posterior view the transverse suture is con- 
spicuously bordered by a linear, pale, yellow, pollinose 
stripe. Scutellum opaque reddish brown or rusty brown. 
Pile of mesonotum yellowish anteriorly becoming dis- 
tinctly brownish red on the posterior half of the meso- 
notum. Scutellar pile abundant, rather long and yellow, 
postcallar pile entirely reddish. Pleural pile entirely 
yellow to reddish yellow. Legs: the femora are shining 
black with the narrow apex of the anterior and middle 
pairs brown. The hind femora are considerably thick- 
