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and 8 projects a toothed ridge, the teeth directed caudad, successively 

 more prominent in the order named, and forming a conspicuous comh- 

 like projection on the 8th segment. The usual dorso-caudal row of fine 

 short spines, their points directed cephalad, occur on abdominal seg- 

 ments 3, 4 and 5. The spiracles are raised above the body surface. 



The pupal stage lasts about four weeks.' 



Adult $ . Expanse 10.5 to 12.5 mm. Brownish black, the wings 

 broad and much rounded. Vestiture of head, thorax and abdomen 

 rather long, hairy and erect, with an admixture of white hairs. In 

 dried examples the abdomen rarely exceeds the margin of secondaries. 

 The scaling of the wings is uniform and moderately dense, the costa 

 of primaries narrowly darker. The primaries have 11 veins, the sec- 

 ondaries 7. The venation of ten examples was studied in detail, the 

 primaries showing no significant variation, and the extreme range found 

 in the secondaries is exhibited on Plate VIII. the first figure showing 

 the more usual condition. 



Described and illustrated from numerous bred examples; 

 the type is in the collection of the author, and paratypes will 

 be distributed. T\f>c tocalitv. DeFuniak Springs. Walton 

 County, Florida. Larvae and cases apparently identical were 

 also collected near Wilmington, North Carolina. Dates of 

 emergence (1921) ranged from May 24 to June 22. 



The larval cases and larvae of a second and larger species 

 have been turned up at intervals throughout the last few years, 

 from localities ranging from North Carolina to south and 

 west Florida, and by several collectors including the author, 

 who. however, did not succeed in breeding the moth until the 

 autumn of 1921. It proves to be a close ally of tracyi Jones. 

 An interesting difference between the two species is in the size 

 of the legs of the adult males, shown, at the same scale, on 

 Plate YITI. This seems to be correlated with a difference in 

 the female cocoons, to which the males must cling in mating. 

 That of tracvi (see Entomological News XXII. May, 1 () 11. 

 Plate VI ) is wide and blunt at its extremity, while that of the 

 new species is more slender, or rather, the silken tube is 

 almost bare of thatching material at its lower end. Because 

 of this "weak-legged" condition, for this insect is proposed 

 the name of 



Psyche (Eurycyttarus) cacocnemos n. ^p. ( I'latrx \ II. VIII). 



Larval case. Length, 25 to 30 mm. Similar in type to that of tracyi. 



