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Psyche 
[Sept -Dec. 
Mesogramma nymphalia n. sp. 
Related to rhombicum Giglio Tos. The second segment is 
almost wholly yellow, the abdomen is wider. 
Male. Length 5 mm. Head: cheeks black, the yellowish-red 
face short. Antennae reddish. Vertex bright greenish-blue. 
Mesonotum black with obscure greyish median vittae, the 
pleurae black with yellow vertical stripe; humeri, lateral mar- 
gins and margin of scutellum bright yellow. Abdomen: elon- 
gate with nearly parallel sides; vitreous, dark brown to black 
with pattern as follows: posterior margin of first segment 
black, base of second segment with a laterally attenuated brown 
fascia, the corners yellow and the apex with a shining purplish- 
black fascia narrowly separated by reddish in the middle. The 
fascia is a little over a third of the segments length. Third 
segment with medial reddish-brown vittae and facing it on 
either side a basal, crescentic, reddish spot widely connected 
to the large basal lateral reddish triangle. Fourth segment with 
similar pattern, the crescentic spot more slender and discon- 
nected. Fifth segment with the lateral margins and widely 
separated submedial vittae, the latter slightly curved, reddish. 
Legs: yellow, the hind femora with wide black apical annulus, 
its pile black, the ventral pile long, their tibiae dark brown ex- 
cept at base and apex, their tarsi brownish. Wings: pale brown- 
ish hyaline, the alulae narrow. 
Female. Abdomen spatulate, the pattern similar, the cres- 
centic spots of third segment deeper, the medial vittae con- 
nected to a submarginal posterior fascia. 
Holotype: a male. Rio Margajitas, Equador, 1250 meters, 
March 1939 (F. M. and H. Brown). Allotype: female. Sucua, 
Equador, 950 meters, Rio Bland, 1939. Paratypes: male, Rio 
Margajitas; male Puyo, Oriente, Equador; female, Rio Ma- 
peto; two females Puyo, Oriente, Equador. (In collection of 
C. L. Fluke.) 
Mesogramma claracunea n. sp. 
Characterized by the opposed yellow crescents, median 
vittae and yellow corner triangles of the third and fourth seg- 
ments; related to conjusa Schiner. 
Female. Length 6 mm. Head: front black, narrowly yellow 
along the sides, the face yellow and short. Thorax: blackish, 
