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Psyche 
[June 
ated on mesonotum medially, but close laterally and an- 
teriorly, and quite widely separated on scutellum; fine and 
close on basal abdominal segment, becoming relatively 
coarse and sparse on segment five, close and fine on segment 
six. 
Color: Black; the tegulse and antennae below more 
fuscous ; the wings quite uniformly infuscated, with fuscous 
nervures ; spurs pale yellow. 
Pubescence: White at sides of face, between antenna?, 
on cheeks, pleura, propodeum, coxae, femora, tibiae, and 
basal abdominal segment ; black on vertex, mesonotum, 
scutellum, and discs of abdominal segments 2-5, with in- 
termixed black hairs between antennae; more fuscous on 
clypeus, front tibiae and tarsi anteriorly, and on outer face 
of mid tarsi ; segments 2-5 with narrow entire white apical 
fasciae; segment six whitish tomentose, with erect black 
hairs laterally, these subappressed medially; scopa white, 
black on segment six and at extreme sides of segment five. 
Type: Female; Bermuda. Coll. Austin Brues. (Museum 
of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.). 
This differs from typical pruina, as occuring in Florida, 
in the more lightly infuscated wings, and in the fact that 
the scopa of segment five is largely white. In M. pruina s. 
str. the scopa of segment five is entirely black, and that on 
segment four is black at the extreme sides. Otherwise, they 
are nearly identical. M. pruina was also described by Cres- 
son as M. pinguis. The male was described by Robertson as 
M. floridana, and by myself as M. shermani. 
