6 
Psyche 
[February 
at apex, with rounded edges; third segment flattened, pear- 
shaped, but little shorter than the first and second segments 
together, twice as long as wide, broadest in its basal half and 
thence gradually narrowed to the truncate and slightly sinuate 
apex. Style longer than the whole antenna, very sharply three- 
jointed; the two basal divisions thick, of about equal length, 
together about two-thirds the length of the third antennal seg- 
ment. Front slightly convex between ocelli and antennae. Face 
moderately swollen as a whole, gradually slanting from between 
the antennae to the oral margin, without grooves. The lower 
part of the head distinctly excavated between the cheeks. 
Proboscis of medium length, reaching about to the hind margin 
of the scutellum if supposed folded beneath the thorax; rather 
thick, especially in its basal half; directed downward, with a 
slight posterior slant. Palpi short and thick, three-jointed; the 
second segment much the longest; the apical segment bluntly 
truncate. Body quite broad and heavy. Thorax distinctly 
broader than thick; dorsum slightly wider than long; transverse 
suture quite deep on the sides over one-third of the width of the 
dorsum, continued as a shallow, oblique depression to near the 
scutellum. Scutellum large, semi-elliptical, cushion-shaped, its 
posterior margin separated from the disk by an impressed line. 
Abdomen broad and flat; the four basal segments together 
shorter than wide; the succeeding apical segments much nar- 
rower, decreasing in width, partly retractile within one another 
to form a telescope-shaped ovipositor; the last segment ends in 
two short, slender, straight, bluntly pointed lamellae which are 
wider in their basal half (in profile). Legs stout and long; the 
tarsi especially thick; the hind basitarsus but little narrower 
than the hind tibia. 
Wings rather long and narrow, much longer than the body, 
over three times as long as wide. Costal cell and extreme base 
of wing, as far as the branching of the fourth and fifth longitudi- 
nal veins, infuscate, with a brownish yellow tinge; then fading 
into greyish in the first basal and subcostal cells and also along 
the costa to the tip of the wing; the remainder of the wing, in- 
cluding the alula, nearly hyaline. Veins dark clove brown or 
nearly black. Epaulet and basicosta clove brown; the epaulet 
