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Psyche 
[February 
ventrally, pale russet dorsally. Proboscis about as long as the 
body. Wings moderately long, uniformly smoky all over. 
Female. Integument black even on the face; scutellum 
clove-brown. Two basal segments of antennae reddish clove- 
brown; the last segment much darker; the style black. Palpi 
clove-brown. Proboscis brownish black. Legs reddish clove- 
brown; the tip of the tibiae and the tarsi more infuscated; the 
hind tarsi almost black; claws black. 
Pilosity rather long and abundant on head, thorax, and 
base of abdomen. Vertex, front, and face with numerous, erect, 
black hairs; cheeks and posterior orbits with a long and dense 
beard of greyish white pile. Dorsum of thorax and scutellum 
uniformly covered with loose, erect, moderately long, reddish 
yellow pile, more russet on the scutellum; sides and ventral face 
with long and dense, greyish white hairs, more yellowish below 
the wings. Dorsally the abdomen bears on the first and basal 
half of second tergites long, erect, reddish yellow pile, similar 
to that of the thoracic dorsum; the remainder of the dorsal 
side bears many scattered, short and more or less appressed, 
black hairs; and in addition a very sparse, long, erect, black 
pilosity; ventrally there is on the sides a dense, yellowish white, 
matted pile, but the largest part of the sternites has but a very 
few, short, appressed, white hairs. Coxae and femora with long, 
erect, greyish white pile; the hairs on the tibiae and tarsi very 
short and black. The ground color of the integument on the 
ventral side of thorax and abdomen is completely hidden by a 
dull, cinereous white bloom. On head and dorsum of thorax 
the pruinescence is dull and very dark brown, somewhat more 
cinereous on the sides of the dorsum and on certain areas of 
front and face. The sides of the face rather shiny. On the 
dorsal face of the abdomen the pruinescence is velvety black, 
with a somewhat oily sheen, and there are two transverse, ill- 
defined spots of a yellowish grey, dull bloom near the anterior 
margin of the second, third and fourth tergites, so that the 
abdomen appears quite distinctly spotted. 
Head moderately flattened, much broader than the thorax; 
semi-elliptical seen from above; in profile the face ts moderately 
projecting, much less so than in S. arnoldi] when seen in front 
