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Psyche 
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Brownish to piceous black; legs, palpi, antennae, and 
(usually) a pair of spots between the eyes flavous. 
Head proportionately large, with unusually prominent 
eyes. 
Prothorax cordate; about Vs wider than the head across 
the eyes; joist over V 2 wider than long; base slightly nar- 
rower than apex, nearly 1/3 narrower than widest part; 
sides evenly arcuate in anterior %, strongly sinuate before 
the acute basal angles. Base and apex slightly emarginate ; 
basal angles each with a setigerous puncture; lateral mar- 
gins narrow, without setigerous puncture; Disc of prono- 
tum not punctate; transverse basal and apical impressions 
and median longitudinal line present, and also a pair of 
short, linear basal fovese just within the basal angles. 
Elytra widest behind the middle, each elytron indepen- 
dently rounded at apex ; humeri distinctly narrowed ; 
elytra each with 8 well impressed striae, the striae faintly 
or not punctate, the 3rd interval with 3 or 4 large seti- 
gerous punctures. Inner wings about as long as the elytra. 
Prosternal process margined except at extreme apex. 
Abdominal sternites 3 to 5 each, with a pair of single setse 
near middle. Anterior tarsi of $ slightly dilated, the first 
3 joints pubescent beneath. 
Length 7. 5-8.5 mm. Width 3. 0-3. 7 mm. 
Holotype $ , allotype $ , and 43 paratypes from the 
Smoky Mountains, below Newfound Gap, Tennessee side, 
near 5,000 feet, August 30. 8 paratypes from the Black 
Mountains, Mt. Mitchell, N. C., near 6,000 feet (just above 
Camp Alice), September 5. Holotype, allotype, and para- 
types in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (No. 16433) ; 
paratypes in the writer’s collection. All specimens taken 
by the writer under stones on gravelly bars and banks of 
small mountain brooks. 
The absence of the lateral marginal bristle of the pro- 
thorax and the presence of red spots between the eyes dis- 
tinguish appalachia from all our other species of Nebria 
s. str., group XI ( cf . Banninger, 1. c.) except from pallipes. 
From the latter appalachia may be known at once by its 
much smaller size, proportionately smaller prothorax and 
