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Psyche 
[Sept -Dec. 
Holland, 1898, Butt. Book, pi. 30, fig. 48, male, fig. 49, female, 
et 1930, op. cit. pi. 66, fig. 12, male, 9 non scudderi Edwards, nec 
“type”; melissa Edwards, Chapman, 1917 in Oberthur, Et. 
Lep. Comp. 14, pi. 9, fig. 26, male, genit.; et 1918, Ent. Rec. 
30:4). 
Distinguished from all melissa forms by the following com- 
bination of characters: ampler (cubitoid) termen, especially 
noticeable in female. Upperside: optical scaling producing a 
duller violet effect in both sexes. Fulvous arches in female 
generally restricted to the secondaries and to the strong inter- 
spaces. Underside: colder tone of greyish fawn coloration which 
produces, in spite of the pronounced halos around the well- 
pigmented extradiscal spots, a uniform effect (recalling certain 
palearctic Plebejus species), this effect being due both to the 
broader wing space and to a peculiar reduction of the white 
arches which form mere rims to the thin fuscous arches (this 
distinguishes it also from scudderi) ; narrowness of subterminal 
ornamentation in contrast to spacious disc; spot in Cu x gen- 
erally placed in a more distad advanced position due presum- 
ably to cubitoid wing shape, and thus not forming with the dis- 
coidal and the Cu 2 +(Ai) spots a regularly slanting line as it 
does in most individuals of other melissa forms. Genitalically 
shows the highest differentiation of the melissa male organ from 
that of scudderi , in all specimens measured the fraction h/u 
being even smaller than is usual for most melissa forms (see 
p. 88). 
Male, holotype, labelled “Orig. PI. 6, fig. 6, Butt. N. Engl. 
Cab. S. H. Scudder, 306,” Mus. Comp. Zool. Slide No. 338. 
Genitalia measurements: F = 0, 57mm., H = 0, 35mm., U = 0, 
44mm. Female, allotype, labelled “Albany N.Y.” ex coll. Scud- 
der, Mus. Comp. Zool. Paratypes: 5 males, 1 female, “Albany 
N.Y.”-; 1 male, 1 female “Centre N.Y.” ; and 1 female “Canada, 
Saunders.” [London, Ont.], all these ex coll. Scudder, Mus. 
Comp. Zool.; 2 males, 1 female “Centre N.Y.,” 1 female 
“Detroit, Mich.”; 1 male, 1 female “Pa.” and 2 males, 1 female 
“N.Y. State,” all these in Mus. Comp. Zool.; 22 males, 12 fe- 
males “Albany N.Y.” coll. H. K. Clench; 1 male “Albany, 
N.Y.,” 6 males “Sylvania, Ohio” and two pairs “Toronto, Ont.” 
9 Dr. W. R. Sweadner of the Carnegie Museum, where this specimen (coll. 
Edwards) is preserved, obligingly sent me a replica of the locality wiggle. It 
reads: “N. York.” 
