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Psyche 
[February 
its tibia is streaked with black internally. Wings rather deeply 
infuscated, except at base. Face finely vertically shagreened or 
punctulate with a short median carina below the antennae; malar 
space as long as the second flagellar joint; antennal cavities 
strongly transversely striate; vertex densely and rather finely 
punctate, the posterior ocelli but little further from one another 
than from the eye : occipital carina sharp medially, coming very 
close to the ocelli; occiput finely circularly striate-punctate and 
shining. Antennae with all the flagellar joints decidedly longer 
than thick. Frothorax, mesonotum and scutellum rather finely 
and very densely but not confluently punctate, less distinctly 
shining than usual; pronotum with a single transverse carina 
medially close to the posterior margin, unusually long, three- 
fourths the length of the mesonotum. Scutellum oval, with the 
hind edge distinctly margined. Postscutellum somewhat promi- 
nent, semicircular, the crenate margin with a median emar- 
gination. Propodeum very coarsely rugose with a strong,, 
almost dentiform median carina at each side of which lies a less 
prominent carinate line; sides also distinctly carinate. Pleurae 
punctate, much more sparsely and coarsely so behind. Abdomen 
short and very strongly clavate, the gaster fully thrice as wide 
as the petiole. Petiole slightly wider than long, its sides parallel; 
highly convex above and armed below near apex with a cons- 
picuous long slender erect tooth; abdomen shining at base, 
more opaque apically, closely punctate, the punctures elongated 
and giving the appearance of a longitudinal trend to the sculp- 
ture. Hind coxae very finely and densely punctate below and 
inwardly above, the punctures becoming very sparse and the 
surface shining outwardly above; upper edge without tooth 
and broadly rounded, not sharply ridged as in most species. 
Hind femur very minutely punctate; with a large triangular 
tooth at the middle, followed by three widely spaced small teeth, 
followed by five or six still smaller ones becoming minute at the 
apex of the femur. 
Type from Laloki, Papua, 1910 (F. Muir). The body is 
not conspicuously pubescent, although the face and abdomen 
are clothed with short, pale glistening hairs. There is no trace 
of metallic color on the body. 
