32 Psyche [March- June 
decreasing width to the middle of the face. There is a tiny black 
spot above the antennae, quadrate, connected to the slightly 
larger, deep lunule of brown above it. Ground color of front, face 
and cheeks pale yellow, the former slightly brown in the middle, 
the pile of the occiput on the upper fifth of vertex, front and upper 
part of face erect and black, a very little pale pile on either side 
of the tubercle. Occiput except immediately behind the ocelli 
pale yellowish pollinose. Tubercle small, extending barely beyond 
the base of the antennae ; profile almost straight above the tuber- 
cle, retreating sharply below it; the cheeks small. Antennae light 
orange, the third joint broadly dark on the dorsal half and the 
apex and scarcely longer than wide; pile of the basal joints black; 
arista black. Thorax: dark golden-sepia with a pair of obscure, 
yellowish-brown pollinose vittae extending somewhat past the 
mesonotal suture and between it a narrow line of the same color. 
Lateral margins of the thorax broadly yellow; pleurae, except 
propleurae, lower sternopleurae, lower pteropleurae, hypo and 
metapleurae pale yellow, otherwise dark brown. Scutellum wholly 
light brownish-yellow with several black bristles on the margin 
and five or six black hairs on its disc; I cannot discern any ventral 
pile. Abdomen: broadly oval, quite flattened, the first segment 
yellow on the sides with bristly black pile broadly brown across 
the middle. Second segment almost a third again as wide pos- 
teriorly as anteriorly; shining dark brown in color and somewhat 
lighter along the sides with a conspicuous, transverse fascia across 
the middle of uniform width, slightly convex, not quite reaching 
the side margin. Third segment barely wider posteriorly, of 
similar ground color; it has a slender, basal, yellow fascia not 
reaching the side margins and a quite broad fascia across the 
middle; it is broadly interrupted in the middle anteriorly nar- 
rowly from its posterior medial corners and on each side in the 
middle slightly concave. This fascia does not quite reach the 
lateral margin. Fourth segment with blackish markings on a 
light yellowish-brown background as follows; the entire narrow 
lateral margins; on either side from the posterior margin a large 
triangle is directed towards the base of the segment and reaches 
two-thirds of its length, its medial surface is more or less straight 
and its outer surface approximately straight but diagonal. There 
is a broad, median vitta rounded off anteriorly, a little wider an- 
teriorly and just reaching the base of the segment. The median 
vitta and the lateral triangles are narrowly connected along the 
