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Psyche 
[March 
convex, with reticular microsculpture plain under strong 
magnification, and covered with rather large, rounded, not 
very deep punctures from which rise long setae, longer at 
the apical declivity than elsewhere. 
Lower side with relatively reduced punctation and pubes- 
cence ; prosternal process rounded at tip, weakly margined, 
punctured and pubescent ; pro-episterna nearly smooth, with 
some rather faint punctures near anterior margin; meta- 
episterna slightly elongate, narrowed posteriorly, strongly 
punctate, without external groove; abdomen punctate and 
pubescent at sides, nearly smooth at middle. 
Legs long; protibiae of male without tooth near base; 
upper side of tarsi glabrous; 5th tarsal segment with a 
double row of spines; aedeagus as figured (Fig. 2). 
Tanganyika Territory: Uzungwe Mountains, Dabaga 
(A. Loveridge, 4. XII. 1929). Holotype $ in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology (Type No. 28,416) . The type is unique. 
This is a very distinct species, sharply set off by its colora- 
tion. I place it, provisionally at least, in subgenus Platychlae- 
nius Jeannel, because of its nearly smooth pro-episterna, but 
it is strongly differentiated from the other forms of this 
group by characters given above. The sculpture of the 
elytral intervals is not granular as it is in most species of 
Platychlaenius. 
