130 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [May, '22 



In both 1919 and 1921 the larval cases of one of the new 

 species were found in considerable numbers, attached to tree- 

 trunks, at DeFuniak Springs. Florida. The life-cycle of this 

 insect is apparently similar to that of confcderata (irt.. for 

 in mid-May the larvae creep up from the ground and attach 

 their cases to the bark, preliminary to pupation. Where oaks 

 and pines grow together, oaks are preferred ; and the cases 

 are rarely found more than five feet from the ground. From 

 numerous cases gathered about May 20. forty males emerged, 

 but not one female ; and since none of the remaining cases 

 contained female pupae, the conclusion seems inevitable that 

 the female larvae must have sought out other and different 

 situations for the suspension of their cases. This habit does 

 not seem to have been recorded for any of our North American 

 Psychidac, though it has been noted at length (Hofman. Berl. 

 Entomol. Zeitschr., IV) of European species. For this insect 

 is proposed the name of 



Psyche (Eurycyttarus) celibata n. sp. (Plates VII, VIII). 



Larval case. Roughly cylindrical, 15 mm. in length ; of coarse texture 

 externally, the material overlaid upon the silken tube consisting of thin 

 flakes of pine hark, and a few short hits of dry pine-needles or fine 

 grass-stems irregularly applied longitudinally and not usually projecting 

 far beyond the extremity of the case. 



Larta, just before pupation. Length. 9 mm.; width of head, .9 mm. 

 White; the chftinized areas of the thoracic segments dark brown, with 

 the usual narrow longitudinal white lines. Head dark brown, almost 

 black, with the front (or at least its upper portion) white; three oblique 

 white bars on each epicranium, the upper and longest extending to the 

 adf rental sclerite; the frontal punctures inconspicuous, the frontal setae 

 opposite them, and the 2nd adfrontals slightly higher. Prothoracic 

 spiracle not regularly oval, almost as high as wide. Primary body-setae 

 present, as indicated in the illustration. 



Pupa of $ . Length 6 mm. ; dull amber brown, darker dorsally, the 

 eyes dark brown. Front smoothly rounded. The mesothoracic wings 

 extend halfway across the third abdominal segment ; the prothoracic 

 legs and the antennae extend almost to the caudal margin of the wings ; 

 the mesothoracic legs reach the wing-margin, and the metathoracic legs 

 slightly exceed the margin. Abdominal segments 8, 9 and 10 are curved 

 ventrad; the two caudal hooks are large, each terminating in a sharp 

 thorn. The dorso-cephalic portions of the abdominal segments are 

 finely striated, and from the dorso-cephalic margin of segments 6, 7 



