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Psyche 
[Vol. 95 
Description of holotype: Forewing length 8.6 mm. Structure — 
Clypeus weakly bidentate below, emargination narrower than an 
antennal socket; pronotal carina ending at about level of secondary 
spiracular entrance; pronotal fovea shallow, obtuse prominence 
present below this; propodeum with longitudinal carina and poste- 
rior cavity essentially obliterated dorsally (Fig. 3); third segment of 
midtarsus almost symmetrical; inner lobe of third segment of hind- 
tarsus short (Fig. 6); enlarged claw of hindtarsus thick and blunt 
(Fig. 6); metasomal tergum I more than twice as long as wide, 
flask-shaped (Fig. 1). Integument finely granulate throughout, dull. 
Vestiture consisting of scattered yellow hairs shorter than an ocellar 
diameter. Color — (Discolored by alcohol). Brown. Red are man- 
dibular teeth, ventral margin of clypeus and tips of claws. Yellow are 
antennae beneath, clypeus, marks above and below interantennal 
area, inner margins of eyes extending above and behind ocelli, most 
of genae narrowing to stripes above, mandibles, pronotal carina, 
anterior and posterior margins of pronotum, longitudinal stripes 
below humeri, two longitudinal stripes on scutum, tegulae, anterior 
margin and posterior transverse stripes on scutellum, metanotum 
except posterior margin, two broad longitudinal stripes on propo- 
deum, a large spot above dorsal groove, broad anterior and poste- 
rior stripes on mesepisternum, connected below, metapleura broadly 
above, metasomal sternum I posteriorly, posterior bands on terga 
I-VI and sterna II-V, forecoxae, anterior half of midcoxae, three 
stripes on hindcoxae, foretrochanters and distal margins of mid and 
hindtrochanters, forefemora and tibiae mostly, mid and hindfemora 
anteriorly, mid and hindtibiae except for stripes, tarsi and claws 
except for mid and hind first tarsal segments proximally. Wings 
hyaline with veins yellowish, verging into brown basally. 
Male: Unknown. 
Etymology: The name, a noun in apposition, is taken from the 
Greek word pelor, meaning monster or prodigy, and refers to the 
nest. 
Remarks: There is little variation among the paratypes. Taking 
forewing length as an indicator of size, the paratypes are all 8.4 mm. 
The yellow is more extensive on the pronotum in two of the para- 
types, and on the mesepisterna, metapleura and propodeum of one 
of these specimens. 
During a recent visit to the British Museum, JMC compared the 
type series with the types of M. fraudulentus and alienus, the two 
