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Psyche 
[Mar. 
Apparently this genus is distributed from one end of 
New Guinea to the other, but only in the mountains. 
Callictita cyara cyara Bethune-Baker 
Callictita cyara Bethune-Baker, 1908, P.Z.S., 1908 : 119, 
pi. 8, fig. 1; Fruhstorfer, 1923, [in] Seitz, Macrolep. 
World, 9 : 891, pi. 145k. 
Callictita albiplaga (nee albiplaga Joicey and Talbot) : 
Jordan, 1930, Proc. Ent. Soc. London, 5: 60. 
The species was described originally from the Anga- 
bunga River and Owgarra, in eastern New Guinea. Fruh- 
storfer (loc. cit .) records it as well from Mt. Gelu (1100 
meters) in eastern New Guinea, and Jordan (loc. cit.) 
gives the Edie River, west side of the Herzog Mts., east- 
ern New Guinea, April ( !). In the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoology is a series of 18 specimens from Mt. Misim 
(6000 feet), Morobe District, eastern New Guinea, taken 
Jan.-Marcli, 1933, by Herbert Stevens. 
Males above with the fore wing bright iridescent violet, 
with a central patch of jet black scales, and a narrow black 
outer marginal border. Hind wing is black-brown en- 
tirely, save for a central white patch, about the same size 
as the discal black patch of the fore wing. 
Females above similar, save for : the slightly larger, 
somewhat less intense black discal patch of the fore wing 
above ; the much broader outer marginal border, and the 
extension of this border in on the inner margin to the 
base, where it thickens up to the lower Dc. The hind 
wing is largely white, with a border of black-brown com- 
pletely surrounding the wing, on costa, outer margin and 
inner margin, including the base. On the outer margin, 
near the anal angle, just outward of this band is a row of 
two or three white internervural dashes. A tail at Cu2. 
Underside of male is white on both wings. The fore 
wing is crossed by four bands of black-brown, one on the 
margin, to 2 A, one post-discal to Cu2, one discal to inner 
margin, and a basal one, covering the whole base, save for 
a costal dash of white. Hind wing has an irregular heavy 
dark band running from costa near base, across base, and 
along inner margin, frequently showing white within it 
