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Psyche 
[December 
petiolar node shining, with spaced small punctures, mesally impunc- 
tate; declivity of propodeum and front, rear and sides of node shin- 
ing, with delicate horizontal reticulo-striation. Mandibles very finely 
striolate, sericeous, with a few coarse elongate punctures. Legs and 
antennae finely and densely punctulate, the legs more shining than 
the antennae. Gaster smooth and shining with numerous minute, 
spaced punctulae. 
0-5 mm 
Figure 16, Simopclta laticeps n.sp., head in dorsal view. Drawn to same 
scale as Figs. 10-11. 
Body including appendages, covered with a short, fine, mostly 
decumbent or curved-subappressed pilosity, sparse on mandibles and 
sides of alitrunk, absent from anterior face of first gastric tergum. 
Longer fine hairs, mostly erect, are found mainly on the anterior 
parts of the head and near the antennal scape bases, on the underside 
of the head, scattered over the dorsal surface of the alitrunk, on the 
anterior coxae and beneath the prothorax, at the apex and on the 
underside of the gaster. 
