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Psyche 
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them. Temple: at its upper 1/4 only about 0.36 as long as eye in 
lateral view and more strongly receding behind eye than in female. 
Mesoseutum: notauli reaching about 8/10 the length of meso- 
scutum; punctures even sharper and denser than in female, largely 
adjacent. First gastric tergite: 8.7 as long as wide at apex. 
Types: The female holotype will be deposited at Tucuman, Ar- 
gentina in the collection of the Instituto Miguel Lillo of the Uni- 
versidad Nacional de Tucuman. The male paratype will be retained 
in the collection of Charles C. Porter at 301 North 39th Street, 
McAllen, Texas. 
Field Notes: The female holotype was netted among roadside 
weeds in bright sun. The type locality is in Selva Chaquena, a sub- 
tropical deciduous forest which in northeastern Salta and Jujuy 
Provinces of Argentina forms a transition between the lowland 
Dry Chaco scrub to the east and the mostly evergreen Selva Tucu- 
mano-Boliviana at the base of the Andes to the west. 
The male paratype comes from Selva Paranense, a humid ever- 
green subtropical forest characteristic of northeastern Argentina 
and adjoining Paraguay and Brasil. 
Since almost 1.000 km. of Dry Chaco, unsuitable for moisture 
loving ichneumonids, separate the Selva Paranense and the north- 
west Argentine humid forests, the present day range of Stange- 
pelma in Argentina probably is disjunct. In this respect, Stange- 
