SOUTH AFRICAN BAGWORMS. SQO' 



fork of 16 fully two-thirds ; 4 and 5 stalked for half their 

 length ; disco-cellular very oblique ; 7 some distance apart 

 from stalk of 8, 9 ; stalk of 8, 9 nearly half of 9 ; cell narrow, 

 long-, aud with two faint veinlets. 



Hind wing subtriangnlar ; costa much arched, termen 

 slightly hollowed out at Ic to 2; inner margin arched; apex 

 and tornus well rounded; Ic very faint; 4 and 5 on a stalk 

 of half and from lower angle ; 8 free from base, then 

 anastomosing with upper median just before half of that 

 vein till near vein 7; cell rather broad and long; a rather 

 well-defined veinlet in middle of cell from near base till below 

 half disco-cellular ; a fainter veinlet below it from before 

 half the distance of stalk of 4, 5 and vein 6, where the disco- 

 cellular is angled, 



Exp., 29 mm. in type ; 25 mm. in Durban specimen. 



Hab. — Type, Nkwaleni, Zululand (Janse, caught at light, 

 January 10th, 1916) ; also another specimen (cotype) from 

 Durban (bred by E. E. Piatt, November 4th, 1914). 



Mr. Piatt sends me the following information about this 

 species : " I found the bags numerous beyond kSydenham in 

 the month of May, and I have noted that it feeds on Wattle 

 or other Acacia. I remember this moth was dead in the 

 breeding-cage when I found it, and concluded it had beaten 

 its scales off. I did not keep the case.'^ 



Genus Psyche Schranh. 



Psyche Schrank, Fauna Boiea, ii. 2 Abth., p. 87, 1802; Harapson. 

 ' Moths of India." vol. i, p. 297. 



The following description is ^iven by Sir Gr. Hampson : 



" Male. — Antennae bipectinated to tip, the branches short 



or long. Pore tibiae with no spine. Fore wing with 10 to 



12 veins; vein Ih and Ic anastomosing or separate. Hind 



wing with 7 to 8 veins." 



The specimens which I place in this genus have all lost 



their fore legs, so that I cannot be certain about the generic 



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