44 Psyche [March- June 
chiefly black but is broadly reddish down the midline and again 
just before the scutellum. There is a narrow obscure line of pale 
pubescence along the outer portions of the mesonotal suture. 
Humeri convex, shining black, pale pilose. Scutellum obscurely 
shining black with some long pale pile and shorter, black, tuber- 
culate, setaceous pile. Abdomen: quite convex, elongate, some- 
what oval, widest in the middle of the third segment, the base of 
the abdomen but little wider than the apex, the abdomen some- 
what wider than the thorax at its widest point. Color of abdomen 
chiefly black, moderately shining. On the second segment there 
is a pair of linear, very obscure, reddish, almost obsolescent spots; 
they are widely separated in the middle and do not reach the 
sides ; they are slightly oblique and placed a little before the mid- 
dle of the segment. If the abdomen is viewed from the front the 
spots become more evident because they are clothed with thick, 
pale yellow pubescence. Pile of the posterior three-fourths of the 
segment appressed and black. On the base and sides of the seg- 
ment the pile is quite long, erect and whitish. The third segment 
has a pair of similar, slightly oblique, larger and more evident 
linear bands which almost reach the side margins and which 
occupy a natural depression in the abdomen; they are narrowly 
separated in the mid-line, are reddish in color and are outlined 
from in front chiefly by thin golden pile and very little pubes- 
cence. The fourth segment has a conspicuous, complete, sub- 
basal band running almost to the lateral margin and diverging a 
little from the basal margin towards the sides. This band is light 
reddish-brown pollinose but there is some evidence that it may 
have been golden pollinose originally. It is sparse, golden pilose; 
elsewhere the third, fourth and fifth segments are shining black 
and semi-appressed black setate. Legs: femora almost wholly 
black; only the very narrow apices brown. Hind femora quite 
slender; fore tibiae wholly black, its very narrow base excluded; 
middle and hind tibiae chiefly black, narrowly brownish apically. 
Anterior tarsi wholly black. Middle and hind tarsi light reddish- 
brown on the basal three joints; others dark brown. Wings: with 
a strong brown spot on the anterior border just past the middle, 
occupying the region from the costa to the vena spuria and all of 
the basal part of the marginal cell and the area below this to the 
vena spuria, extending moreover along the posterior margin of 
the fourth longitudinal vein for a short distance on the apical 
side of the small cross vein, extending off on both sides of the 
