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Jones, Frank (2), Eurycttarus tracyi, 1911; Psyche cacocnemos, 1922; P. 



celibata, 1922; Oiketicus toumeyi, 1922; Thyridopteryx vernalis, 1923; 



Dendropsyche burrowsi, 1926; Oiketicus dendrokotnos, 1926; Platoeceticus 



congregatus, 1945; P. watsoni, 1945. 

 Koehler, Paul (4), Chalia rebeli, 1924; Oiketicus elegans, 1931; Platoeceticus 



rugosus, 1931; P. tandilensis, 1931; Oiketicus horni, 1938; Chalia 



dispar, 1939; Chlanialicheniphilus, 1939; Clania dagiierrei, 1939; Cochlio- 



theca fiebrigi, 1939; Platoeceticus chaquensis, 1939; P. ho^fmanni, 1939; 



Oiketicus liseri, 1939; 0. oviformis, 1939; Zamopsyche haywardi, 1939; 



Clania borsanii, 1953; C yamorkinei, 1953; Oiketicus ginocchionus, 1953. 

 Lucas, Pierre (1), Oiketicus poeyi, 1856. 

 Moeschler, Heinrich (0), Psijche surinamensis, 1878. 

 Packard, Alpheus (2), Oeceticus coniferarum, 1864; Platoeceticus gloverii, 



1869; Psyche carbonaria, 1887. 

 Pallas, Peter (0), Phalaena casta, 1767. 

 Philippi, Rudolph (0), Psyche chilensis, 1860. 

 Schaus, William (6), Oiketicus jonesi, 1896; Chalia tristis, 1901; C vigasi, 



1901; Oiketicus orizavae, 1901; Oiketicus specter, 1905; Platoeceticus 



marona, 1905; Thanatopsyche thoracica, 1905; Thyridopteryx microptera, 



1905; Platoeceticus costaricensis, 1911; Chalia pizote, 1927. 

 Siebold, Carl (0), Psyc/ie AeKx, 1850. 

 Townsend, Charles (0), Oiketicus townsendi, 1894. 

 Vazquez G., Leonila (5), Eurikuttarus hoffmanni, 1941; Oiketicus assiinilis, 



1942; 0. fasciculatxis, 1942; 0. multidentatus, 1942; 0. ochoterenai, 1942; 



0. sinaloanus, 1942; 0. mortonjonesi, 1949; 0. zihuatanejensis, 1951. 

 Weyenbergh, Hendrik (1), Oiketicus tabacillus, 1884; Psyche bergii, 1884; 



P. burmeisteri, 1884; P. cassiae, 1884. 

 Zeller, Phillip (1), Oiketicus gigantea, 1871. 



In the United States four workers have been prominent in the 

 literature of this family. Dyar (1914-26) and Schaus (1896-1927) 

 were concerned primarily with the Neotropical species, but Dyar 

 wrote one paper (1923) that briefly treated several North American 

 bagworms. Schaus described the greater nmnber of species (10), 

 but at least six of these represent synonyms. Barnes (1905-24), 

 in collaboration with Benjamin and McDunnough, and especially 

 Jones (1911-45) focused their attention on the Nearctic species. The 

 latter author, through extensive collecting and in several short but 

 informative papers, has contributed more toward the understanding 

 of this diflBcult family than any other entomologist of the hemisphere. 



In Mexico the efforts of Vazquez (1942-53) should be mentioned; 

 her major work (a doctoral thesis) is entitled "Estudio Monografico de 

 las Psychidae de Mexico." Relying in part on the early collections 

 of Roberto Miiller and Charles Hoffman as well as her own, Vazquez 

 has described a total of eight new species from Mexico, of which five 

 have been synonymized here. Twenty-one species are recognized 

 by Vazquez as occurring in Mexico, but approximately nine of these 

 names (including the five mentioned above) have been reduced to 

 synonyms. 



