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Psyche 
[March 
Megistops bahamensis n. sp. 
(Plate 1, figure 6) 
About 3.5 mm. in length, oval, feebly shining, alutaceous 
and finely punctate, deep reddish brown with pale yellow 
prothorax and the elytra with four large pale yellow spots 
somewhat irregular in shape, the two basal ones being 
longer than the apical ones. 
Head yellow brown with darker mouthparts, eyes only 
slightly separated on the occiput. Antennae reddish brown, 
the basal joints yellowish below. Prothorax twice as wide 
as long, narrowed anteriorly with thickened apical angles; 
surface alutaceous and thickly and finely punctate, in some 
specimens traces of five indistinct spots. Elytra deep 
chocolate brown to piceous with four pale yellow spots, 
the basal one on each elytron being larger and curving 
irregularly towards the lateral margin, the apical one 
smaller and usually more rounded. Body beneath usually 
with the middle of the prosternum and breast and apical 
half of hind femora deeper brown. Length 3. 4-3. 7 mm. ; 
width 1.9 mm. 
Type data. — Holotype male (U.S.N.M. Cat. No. 60,931) 
and 6 paratypes, 3 paratypes in M.C.Z. (Type No. 28,690), 
all collected on Harbor Island, Bahamas, July 8 by H. F. 
Wickham. 
Remarks. — The only West Indian species likely to be 
confused with this is one of the color forms of M. tabebuiae 
Blake, in which one specimen with deep brown elytra has 
very faint traces of four small spots and another specimen 
has the spots so large as to coalesce leaving only the suture 
and margin dark. These two species have rather similarly 
shaped but clearly different aedeagi, that of the Bahaman 
species having a wider, more rounded tip. 
Explanation of Plate 1 
Fig. 1. Megistops costaricensis n. sp. Fig. 2. Megistops melanoloma 
n. sp. Fig. 3. Megistops vandepolli Duv. Fig. 4. Megistops argentinen- 
sis n. sp. Fig. 5. Megistops taurops n. sp. Fig. 6. Megistops bahamen- 
sis n. so. Fig. 7. Megistops liturata (Oliv.) Fig. 8. Megistops bry- 
anti n. sp. 
