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PSYCHE. 



[July 1890- 



second segment ; earlet brown shining, 

 round, pointed behind ; last segment 

 (base injured) with the apical margin 

 slightly produced in the middle, round- 

 ed, v.ery slightly depressed. Superior 

 appendages a little more than twice as 

 long as the iast segment, pale brown, 

 pilose, closely approximated in the apical 

 half; basal half cylindrical, cui-ved slow- 

 ly inwardly and inferiorly ; gradually 

 enlarged externally on the apical half, 

 and tapering to the tip, which is short 

 acute, recurved inwardly ; viewed from 

 the side the cylindrical basal half is 

 somewhat contracted in front of the in- 

 flation of the apical half; inferior ap- 

 pendage a little shorter, pale brown, 

 triangular, large at base, very much nar- 

 rowed and recurved on the apical half, 

 tip blunt with a small black tooth above. 

 Genital parts wanting. Ventral lobe 

 on the second segment small, brown, 

 leaf-shaped, margins thicker, blackish. 

 Legs pale brown, pilose, tibia externally 

 yellowish, spines black; tarsi pale 

 brown ; anterior femora with a small 

 brush on the tip ; anterior tibiae with a 

 short membrane below, ending in a 

 spine projecting from the tip. Wings 

 hyaline, broad, principally the hind 

 wings, veins pale brown ; ptero&tigma 

 elongate, yellow, below little more than 

 one areole ; the antecubitals in the sub- 

 costal space surrounded by a yellow 

 spot, a similar spot near the arculus ; 

 transversals in the median space dark 

 brown ; hind wings with similar spots? 

 and an orange one filling tlie triangle 

 near the anal border ; angle of the hind 

 wings oblique nearly rounded ; mem- 



branula long, snow-white, apical half 

 blackish ; front wing with 7-8 antecubi- 

 tals, 8 postcubitals ; hind wing with 5 

 antecubitals, 7-9 postcubitals ; both tri- 

 angles of front wings with 3 areoles ; dis- 

 coidal triangle of hind wings with 2 are- 

 oles ; 2 transversals in the median space of 

 all wings ; one transversal in the basilar 

 space of the left hind wing ; discoidal 

 areolets beginning with 3, then 2 se- 

 ries for 2 areolets, followed by 3 not 

 very regular series ; anal triangle of hind 

 wings with 2 transversals. 



Female. Similar to the male ; abdo- 

 men more robust, lateral margin of the 

 segments paler ; last segment very short, 

 apical margin widely notched ; appen- 

 dages brown, black on tip, pilose, cylin- 

 drical, narrower at base, slightly bent 

 outwards on tip, which is short, acute ; 

 tubercule between them brown, pilose, 

 obtuse ; vulvar lamina very short, with 

 a large rectangular notch, almost at- 

 taining its base, sides rounded. Legs, 

 brown, tibiae yellowish externally, tarsi 

 dark brown. Wings similar to the 

 male, but slightly smoky, the costa yel-. 

 low externally, all spots larger, a brown- 

 ish spot on the base of the front wings 

 near the hind border, and a larger 

 brown band on the hind wings, ending 

 on the interior angle of the discoidal tri- 

 angle, leaving the extreme base of the 

 wing hyaline ; front w^ng with 7 ante- 

 cubitals, and 7-8 postcubitals ; hind 

 wing with 5 antecubitals and 8 postcu- 

 bitals ; both triangles in front wings with 

 3 areoles ; discoidal triangles in hind 

 wings with two parallel transversals, of 

 which in the right hind wing the basalone 



