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Psyche 
[March- June 
brown, elsewhere black. Second segment with transverse, 
somewhat oblique, subbasal, orange spots narrowly sepa- 
rated in the middle. The fascia reaches the lateral margin 
and extends over it from the anterior corners almost to the 
posterior corners. Third segment with a less wide but com- 
plete transverse fascia indented medially, lying on the base 
of the margin and reaching the anterior corner. Fourth 
segment similarly marked as the third and its posterior 
margins as well diffusely orange. Fifth segment wholly 
orange brown, except for a small, triangular, basal black 
spot. Pile of abdomen short, appressed, black on the black 
area, erect golden on the orange areas, except on the apex 
of the abdomen where it is quite flat and appressed. Legs: 
pale orange, golden pilose, the hind femora brownish dor- 
sally on all except the basal third ; its dorsal pile near the 
apex and a ventral row of setae, which reach from base to 
apex, black. Wings: with brown anterior border. 
Four females, co-types, from Rio Songo, Ost Bolivia, 800 
meters (Fassl). Co-types in the Vienna Museum and the 
author’s collection. 
Sphaerophoria guttulata n. sp. 
Fourth segment with widely interrupted basal and apical 
fascia ; the fifth marked with five spots. Related to robusta 
Cur. 
Female. Length 5 mm. Head: face and cheeks and 
lower part of front, except a median vittae, pale yellow. 
Vertex and a wedge-shaped vittae to base of antennae shin- 
ing black. First two antennal joints pale yellow, with black 
pile; third light orange, narrowly blackish above. Thorax: 
mesonotum strongly shining brassy, with a pair of narrowly 
separated, obscurely brownish vittae. Humeri, all of noto- 
pleurae to suture, almost the whole of mesopleurae, a large 
spot on upper half of sternopleurae, the upper half of ptero- 
pleurae, all of metapleurae and the whole of the scutellum, 
except its very narrow corners, pale yellow. Abdomen: 
orange brown, marked with black ; first segment black, sides 
and corners narrowly yellow ; second segment black, within 
its middle a broad, transverse, orange fascia not reaching 
the sides. Third segment similar, the middle fascia still 
