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naked eye, granulose under low magnification; greyish silk covered 

 with tiny fragments of bark, Hchens, sand. 



Type, — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Everglade, Florida. 



Recorded hosts. — "Lichens" on bark of Citrus sinensis Osbeck 

 and Quercus species (Barnes and McDunnough, 1913). 



Distribution.— (Map 1.) This species has been found over much 

 of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain from South Carolina to per- 

 haps as far west as Texas. 



Material examined, — 24 6^ cf , 6 99, 120 cases: 



UNITED STATES: Alabama: Delchamps, 5 cases, USNM. Mobile, 11 

 cases, USNM. Florida: no specific locality, 2 c?" cf with cases. May 5, USNM. 

 Southwest Florida, Z d" d' with cases, May 15-27, USNM. DeFuniak Springs, 

 8 cases, USNM. Everglade, d" with case. May 1-7, type, USNM. Florida City, 

 13 c?c?, USNM; 8 cases, USNM. Homestead, 2 c? cf , March 7, USNM. 

 Lakeland, 16 cases, USNM. Orlando, 6 cases, USNM. Punta Gorda, 14 

 cases, USNM. Georgia: Screven County, case, USNM. Louisiana: New 

 Orleans, S d^^, 2 cases. May 23- June 6; 32 cases, 4 99, May, USNM. 

 Mississippi: Biloxi, 2 cases, USNM. South Carolina: Summerville, 2 cf d^ 

 with cases, June 14-July 7; 22 cases, USNM. Texas: Dickinson, case 

 (identification questionable), USNM. 



6. Zamopsyche Dyar 



Zamopsyche Dyar, Insec. Inscit. Menst., vol. 11, p. 4, 1923. — Dalla Torre, Ent. 

 Jahrb., vol. 36, p. 131, 1927. — Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 4, 

 p. 197, 1929.— Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1186, 1936.— 

 McDunnough, Check List Lep. Canada and USA, pt. 2, p. 103, 1939. 



Type or genus. — Zamopsyche commentella Dyar, 1923. Monobasic, 



Male. — Antennae as in Prochalia. Legs also similar except 

 meso thoracic tibia with apical spur absent. Primaries (fig. 154) 

 usually with 11 veins, rarely reduced to 10 (due to loss of M2); R3 

 and R4 usually variously stalked, sometunes connate; Mi always 

 widely separate; M2 and 3 either narrowly separated, connate, or 

 shortly stalked; intercalary cell absent as in hindwing, but spur at 

 base of discal cell usually rather prominent; anals as in Prochalia, 

 but base of lA more obsolescent. Secondaries usually 8-veined, 

 rarely 7-, with loss of Mo; oblique crossvein usually absent between 

 Sc+Ri and Ri but sometimes may be present. 



Male genitalia. — Similar to Prochalia. 



Female. — Similar to Prochalia. 



