Psyche 
[September 
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Type species: Coecopria plaumanni 2 - sp.n. 
Coecopria plaumanni sp.n. 
(figs. 4 , 5, 6, 7) 
Female holotype. — Nova Teutonia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 
October 1963, Fritz Plaumann coll. (Museum of Comparative 
Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., type no. 31727). 
Length 1.5 mm. Light chestnut brown, metasoma darker, antennae 
(including club) and legs bright yellow. 
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Fig. 6. Coecopria plaumanni n.sp. (holotype), antenna. 
Fig. 7. Coecopria plaumanni n.sp. (holotype), large sternite. 
Head covered with dense hairs all over, almost globose if viewed 
dorsally but slightly longer than wide (27:22), if antennal promi- 
nence is included, longer than high (27:21), much wider than 
mesosoma (22:17); hind genae with little tufts of dense whitish 
hairs; punctures deep and dense yet not fully contiguous, particularly 
on occiput; vertex with fine transverse rugulosity; antennae as in 
fig. 6; scape and pedicel finely shagreened. 
Mesosoma elongated (30:17), almost as wide as high (17:16), 
with long silvery hairs all over, hairs longer than those on head but 
less dense; prothorax clearly separated dorsally from mesothorax by 
suture, laterally from mesopleura by suture running down from 
spiracle to front coxa, neck-like constricted anteriorly and here 
densely hairy; mesoscutum fused with scutellum and metanotum, 
almost flat, wider than long (14:11), smooth and shining, with few 
*Named in honour of Mr. F. Plaumann in recognition of his interesting 
entomological collections in the Brazilian tropics. 
