40 
Psyche 
[Mar. 
Halteres yellowish with nearly white knob. Legs: black 
with black pile. Wings: nearly hyaline upon the pos- 
terior part with slightly brownish appearance due to 
thick brown villi. The onter part of the costal cell, the 
first basal cell, the basal portion of the snbmarginal cell 
and all of the marginal cell, except the apex, are pale 
yellowish brown. The basal half of the stigmal portion 
of the subcostal cell is yellowish, the remaining onter half 
pale brown. There is a distinct, elongate, dark brown 
spot just behind the point of confluence of the subcostal 
vein with the costa. There is a smaller brown spot upon 
the third longitudinal vein at the base of the submarginal 
cell, a larger one upon the small cross vein and a large 
but not quite so dark spot upon the apex of the marginal 
cell which extends into the submarginal cell. The mar- 
ginal cell is closed with a short stalk. Abdomen: the 
first segment is black, the second, third and fourth are 
brilliant shining blue with greenish reflections laterally 
and purplish ones centrally as well as along the posterior 
and anterior margins of these segments. The pile of the 
first segment is almost entirely black, being narrowly 
white only in the middle. Of the second segment it is 
entirely black except for a broad band of yellowish white 
pile in the middle which extends from the base some two- 
thirds the length of the segment. Pile of third segment 
entirely black except for a few white hairs basally and 
sublaterally. Fourth segment’s pile entirely black 
throughout. 
Holotype: male. Pucallpa, Peru, Dec. 9, 1947, Jose 
Schunke. 
