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Psyche 
[December 
merits only with shining black spots on the sides, the one on the 
third small while that on the fourth extends entirely across the 
segment; genitalia reddish with yellow and black hairs. Legs 
yellow, tips of the femora, tibiae and tarsal joints brown. Halteres 
dark brown. Wings yellowish hyaline,, veins and stigma light 
brown. Length 5 mm. 
$ . Face and front entirely whitish pollinose, the latter 
above the antennae about one third the width of the head and at 
the ocelli one sixth. Thorax as in the male. Abdomen shining 
black, with black hairs, posterior margins of the first, second, and 
third segments with a narrow border of silvery pollen and white 
hairs, fifth and sixth with a white pollinose spot on each side, tip 
of the abdomen dark brown with black hairs, otherwise like the 
male. Length 8 mm. 
Two specimens, St. Augustine, Fla., April 12 and 18, 1919. 
Types in the author’s collection. 
Taken by the writer in company with P. notata Wied., with 
which it was at first confused. It is readily separated by its 
smaller size, the eyes not contiguous in the male, and the front 
entirely pollinose in both sexes. 
Psilocephala davisi sp. nov. 
cf. Face black whitish pollinose, hairs on the lower part of 
the face and inferior orbits white and much longer than in closely 
related species, front black whitish pollinose except the extreme 
upper and narrow part of the triangle which is shining black; 
first antennal joint black, the others dark brown. Thorax and 
scutellum black with long grayish hairs, dorsal stripes obsolete, 
the white hairs on the pleura long with dense tufts before the 
squamae. Abdomen black, hairs white, forming dense tufts on 
the sides of the first and posterior margins of the second and 
third segments, the margins of which are also narrowly whitish 
pollinose, the shining spots on the sides of the second, third, and 
fourth segments conspicuous. Genitalia reddish with white hairs 
Femora black, hairs white, bristles black, tibiae yellow, tips 
brown, base of the tarsi yellow, tips of the meta-tarsi and the 
remaining joints dark beown. Halteres black. Wings hyaline, 
