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Psyche 
[Sept -Dec. 
Abdomen : quite elongate and flattened, the sides parallel. The 
abdomen is black marked with yellow as follows: the extreme 
anterior margin of the first segment on either side, a narrow 
medially interrupted, laterally evanescent central fascia on the 
second segment, a basal, laterally narrow, submedially much 
expanded fascia upon the third segment, which is medially 
connected with a long linear vitta, a pair of horn-shaped spots 
centrally, separated from the medial vittae, their medial and 
truncate, their pointed lateral end curved forward a little and 
not reaching the margins. Fourth segment with a pattern simi- 
lar in size and shape, its medial vittae a little expanded at apex; 
fifth segment with a pair of sublaterally black spots, a pair of 
lateral, marginal, elongate spots posteriorly, and a long vittate 
and medial basal spot, all black upon an orange-brown back- 
ground. The central yellow pattern of the second and fourth 
segments is outlined in opaque black; elsewhere the black is 
shining. Legs: chiefly black pilose and yellow brown, the hind 
femora barely darker, the hind tibiae medially brown centrally 
but more yellowish at base and apex. Wings: pale grey; alula 
post margin nearly linear. 
Holotype: a male. Banos, Ecuador, 2000 M. VII-14-1939. 
Type in the collection of Dr. C. L. Fluke. 
Mesogramma triangulata n. sp. 
Characterized by the pairs of yellowish brown triangular 
spots upon the third and fourth segments. Related to guttijera 
Hull. 
Female. Length 6 mm. Head: the sides of the face are yel- 
low, the cheeks and middle brownish black, the front flat, 
shining brownish-black, the sides narrowly sharply yellow to 
near the ocelli. Vertex convex, violaceous behind and black 
pilose. Face pile white with antennae dark brown. Thorax: 
mesonotum greyish or bluish black, grey pollinose. Viewed 
laterally with a pair of very broad opaque brown vittae reach- 
ing the scutellum. Lateral margins concolorous. The humeri, 
a somewhat obscure pleural spot and vertical stripe on pleurae 
yellow. Abdomen: oval, shining brown, the corners of the first 
segment, its extreme anterior margin the narrow margin of the 
second segment almost to the apex but not expanded apically 
yellow. There is a pair of tiny, transverse yellow spots in the 
middle of second segment. On the third segment there is a pair 
