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Psyche 
[December 
apically; gaster with scarcely any white on the 8th tergite and prac- 
tically without reddish staining even toward apex; fore-leg with coxa 
sometimes with a small dorso-lateral white blotch on apex in addi- 
tion to the ventro-lateral white area and a little to much less red- 
brown staining than in female; trochanter white with a broad to 
very broad blackish stripe extending throughout above; trochantellus 
dull brown to orange with a more or less distinct white blotch be- 
low and often some whitish staining elsewhere; femur more orange- 
brown than in female and with the antero-dorsal white stripe broader 
and extending almost throughout ; tibia dull white, above with a small 
premedian brown blotch and some more or less well developed orange 
brown or orangish tinging elsewhere and below broadly pallid orange 
brown on most of apical 2/3; and tarsus with segments 1-4 dull 
white with faint brown staining on apices and segment 5 dark brown ; 
mid-leg with coxa even more broadly white than in female; trochan- 
ter with some black staining; femur with blackish staining on about 
apical 1/9 ; tibia with a very broad white annulus that extends from 
about basal 1/6 to apical 1/3, more or less blackish brown basad of 
annulus and often more reddish brown behind; hind-leg with coxa 
sometimes with a faint whitish stain above near base; femur blackish 
stained on about apical 1/6 to a little more than 1/5; tibia black, 
practically without reddish staining, and with the premedian white 
annulus a little broader than in female; and tarsus more intensely 
black than in female, with a little brownish staining only near base 
of 1st segment. 
Length of fore-wing: 6. 2-6. 6 mm. Face: punctures slightly 
coarser and denser than in female, mostly adjacent to a little con- 
fluent. Clypeus: apex practically truncate. Temple: 0.62-0.80 as 
long as eye in lateral view. Malar space: 0.64-0.68 as long as basal 
width of mandible. 
Mesopleuron: with the punctures coarser and more generally 
reticulo-confluent than in female. Metapleuron: with definitely 
coarser sculpture than in female. 
Propodeum: rather low and elongate; median longitudinal car- 
inae sometimes more strongly suggested than in female; cristal 
angles even more pronouncedly subpyramidal than in female, the 
lateral longitudinal carinae sharp and high between cristae and hind- 
rim of apical face; strong transverse wrinkling of basal face becom- 
ing reticulate and mingled with more or less distinct large punctures 
on basal 1/2 of lateral field. 
1st gastric segment: postpetiole 0.70-0.78 as long as wide at 
apex; sub-basal elevation of sternite a little blunter than in female; 
