162 Psyche [Sept -Dec. 
is black for some distance before stigma and branches each side 
black for a short distance; the marginal forks are wholly brown, 
and the hind margin of hind wings is brown; both rows of gra- 
dates pale. Stigma yellowish, with a prominent black spot at 
base. There are no marks on head, and antennae pale. The 
pronotum is shorter than in maronica , being plainly broader 
behind than long in middle; there is a red spot near margin at 
about middle of length; lateral lobes of mesonotum with a small 
red spot in front; abdomen with a reddish spot each side on 
each segment, forming a row close to the median line. 
The fore wings are nearly as broad as in maronica ; the radial 
sector strongly curved, the radial area at widest much broader 
than the costal area; the inner gradates of twelve or thirteen 
extending somewhat basally; the outer gradates probably of 
twelve or more, the more basal ones being perfectly continuous 
with the medius, the two rows being more divergent and further 
apart than in maronica. There are nineteen radials and eight 
cubital cross-veins beyond the third cubital cell. In hind wing 
the radial sector is also black before stigma, other veins pale; 
the gradates, eight to ten, are more nearly parallel than in 
fore wing. 
Length of fore wing 20 mm., width 7.5 mm. 
One from Barro Colorado, Canal Zone, 2 December (M. Bates 
coll.). Type M.C.Z. no. 25652. 
Nodita askanes sp. nov. 
Face with a reddish spot each side between the eye and upper 
corner of clypeus; maxillary palpi largely black; antennae pale, 
basal joint with a rather broad reddish stripe on outer side, 
second joint with a dark mark, six to 'ten joints beyond marked 
with black beneath; vertex with a reddish spot each side just 
above outer base of antennae; pronotum with a moderately 
broad red stripe each side, at about middle there is a projection 
inward (somewhat like indiga ), mesonotum usually has a red- 
dish dot each side, and sometimes one over base of fore wings; 
abdomen with two large black spots above, one toward base, 
other toward tip; legs pale, unmarked. 
Fore wings with radial sector more or less plainly black near 
the stigma, and two or three branches each side are black, and 
some of them bordered near the sector; origin of radial sector, 
last cubital cross-vein, first one or two of outer gradates also 
