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Psyche 
[Mar. 
Described from the Wandammen Mts. in Dutch New 
Guinea at an elevation of 3-4000 feet. 
Differs from cyara in characters mentioned under that 
subspecies. From arfakimna it may be told by the more 
scalloped outer marginal border on the hind wing below, 
the defined spots on the inner margin and the single iso- 
lated spot on the costa (rather than two, as in arfakiana ), 
No specimens of this subspecies have been seen, but it 
is well described and illustrated, in color, by Joicey and 
Talbot. 
Callictita cyara arfakiana, new subspecies 
Upper side : 
Male. Fore wing brilliant iridescent purple. Outer 
margin narrowly black-brown. A large central patch of 
jet-black raised scales. Hind wing black-brown with a 
central white patch. At Cul-Cu2 in one specimen is a 
suggestion of a pale spot. A tail at Cu2. 
Underside : 
Male. Fore wing white, crossed by four brown bands, 
one on the outer margin (with a faint streak of white out- 
ward of it), one post-discal (fusing with the first at Cu2), 
one discal (swelling at the inner margin and fusing with 
the basal), and a basal (which includes the whole base 
save for a small costal creamy bar). Hind wing white, 
with a long bar of black-brown running from costa at base 
to just basad of the anal angle, spotted infrequently with 
white. On the costa are two triangular spots, the inner 
reaching the center of the cell, the outer reaching All near 
the cell-end. On the outer margin is a band of brown 
from outer angle to M3, from M3 to anal angle becoming 
differentiated into three black spots ringed with metallic 
blue-green. Marginal to the whole band is a narrow line 
of white, thicker in M3-Cul and Cu2-2A. 
Length of fore wing: Male, 11-11.5 mm. 
Holotype, male, Mt. Siwi, Arfak, Dutch New Guinea, 
800 meters, May 4, 1928 (Dr. E. Mayr). 
Paratype, one male, same locality and collector, April- 
June, 1928. 
