26 Psyche [March- June 
low, the surface is greasy, with abundant very long fine bristles in 
several rows on the edge of and before the margin. The sparse 
ventral fringe is black. Squamae dark brown, the lower lobe bare; 
the metasternum pubescent. Abdomen: broadly oval, much 
wider than the thorax, rather convex, the first segment dark 
shining brown, somewhat metallic on the sides, the remainder of 
the abdomen shining black, sharply marked with yellow bands as 
follows: a pair of broad, clear yellow bands on the basal half of 
the second segment, their inner ends rounded, and separated by a 
little more than their width and removed from the base of the 
segment by a little less than their width; their outer ends are 
diagonally, rounded-truncate and fail by half their width to 
reach the margin. On the third segment near the midline, nar- 
rowly removed from the base, their inner ends rounded, are a 
pair of spots that, after a short distance, are slightly narrowed 
and proceed towards the lateral margin which they narrowly fail 
to reach. Over most of their length except on their medial third 
they are removed from the base by at least their own width and 
they are separated in the middle by at least their narrowest 
width. Their outer ends are subtruncate. On the fourth segment 
there are a pair of similar bands almost as large and of the same 
general shape ; they are slightly narrower, their inner ends almost 
touch the base and their later ends again fail to reach the margin. 
On the fifth segment there are a pair of small, oval, subbasal, 
yellow spots the medial ends more pointed ; the slender, posterior 
margin of the fourth and fifth segments, except at the sides are 
yellowish. The sides of the abdomen are quite emarginate. The 
pile of the abdomen is pale yellow along the margins as far as the 
end of the third segment, over the yellow spots and to a varying 
extent beyond it, but the greater part of the pile of the abdomen, 
especially upon the third and fourth segments is short, subap- 
pressed and black; upon the fifth segment it is long and black. 
Legs: femora black except upon the apical fifth and with the hind 
femora upon the apical sixth. Hind femora unusually long and 
slender. Anterior tibiae and middle tibiae reddish, more brown 
upon the distal part, the latter pair diffusely yellow on the basal 
third. Hind tibiae brown basally and blackish-brown on the distal 
three-fourths. Fore and hind tarsi and apical joints of the middle 
tarsi dark brown; the middle basi tarsi are brownish-yellow. 
Wings: tinged with pale brown; the stigmal cell very dark brown. 
Holotype: No. 23801, one female, Nikko, Japan, July 15, 1931, 
L. Grissett collector. 
