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Psyche [June-September 
Eplophorus velutinus new species 
Male . — Moderately large, elongate, black, and subopaque ; 
elytra ornamented with a short, oblique, smooth, ivory fas- 
cia, extending from near the lateral margin to middle of 
each elytron. 
Head about as wide as long, and nearly flat in front, sides 
nearly parallel between the eyes, flat between the antennal 
tubercles, which are very widely separated and scarcely 
elevated, surface coarsely, irregularly punctate, more or less 
longitudinally rugose, sparsely clothed with short, recum- 
bent, white hairs, with a very long seta arising from a 
large puncture on each side behind the epistoma ; eyes small, 
finely granulated, distinctly divided, lower lobes rounded, 
upper lobes very small and narrow. Antenna eleven-jointed, 
about three-fourths as long as the body, sparsely clothed 
with very short cinereous pubescence and a few long, mod- 
erately stiff, black hairs; first joint robust, about three 
times as long as wide; third joint nearly as long as the fol- 
lowing three joints united, and armed with a very long 
spine at apex; fifth joint slightly longer than fourth and 
both joints armed with a short spine at apex. 
Pronotum slightly longer than wide, slightly narrower at 
base than at apex, and strongly convex; sides strongly 
arcuately rounded, and more strongly constricted at base 
than at apex ; surface sparsely covered with elongate eleva- 
tions, rather densely clothed with recumbent, yellowish 
pubescence, with numerous long, erect hairs intermixed, the 
pubescence shorter and more inconspicuous on apical half, 
with a small, round, conspicuous, black, pubescent spot on 
each side in front of the middle. Scutellum narrowly tri- 
angular, and densely clothed with recumbent, yellowish 
pubescence. 
Elytra about twice as long as wide, and at base about 
equal in width to the pronotum at middle, strongly, abruptly 
deflexed at base, arcuately defiexed at apex, strongly, trans- 
versely depressed at middle, humeri distinct, and strongly 
elevated, a large longitudinal callosity on each side near the 
base, at middle a moderately wide, oblique, glabrous fascia, 
