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Case. — (Fig. 71.) Varying 15-20 mm. in length; may be nearly bare 

 of thatching materials, usually irregularly covered with small frag- 

 ments of leaves or bark. 



Type. — In the American Museum of Natural History. 



Type locality. — Aux Cayes, Fort Ilet District, Haiti. 



Recorded hosts. — "Polygonaceae: Coccoloha sp. (sea grape)" 

 (Jones, 1945). 



Distribution. — (Map 6.) Known only from Haiti of the Greater 

 Antilles. 



Material examined. — 3 cf c?", 1 9, 8 cases: 



HAITI: Aux Cayes, Fort Ilet District, cf , holotype, Aug. 10, AMNH; cf , June 

 24; d', Aug. 7; ? , 8 cases, USNM. 



10. Cryptothelea niacleayi (Guilding) 



Figures 197, 251, 371 



Oikeiicus niacleayi Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 15, p. 375, pi. 8, 



figs. 1-14, 1827. 

 Oiketicus madeaii [sic] Guilding. — Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 222, pi. 34, 



fig. 3, 1854. 

 Cryptothelea macleayi (Guilding) Duncan iw Jardine, Nat. Libr., vol. 7, p, 115, 1841. — 



Dalla torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 189, 1929. — Jones, Trans. Amer. 



Ent. Soc, vol. 71, pp. 101, 102, 103, 104, 1945.— Betrem, Tijdschr. Ent., 



vol. 95, pp. 333, 336, 337, 338, 1952. 

 Lansdownia macleayi (Guilding) Heylaerts, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 25, p. 69, 



1881. 

 Evmcta macleayi (Guilding) Kirby, Cat. Lep. Heter., vol. 1, pp. 504, 925, 1892. 

 Eurycyttara [sic] macleayii [sic] (Guilding) Meyrick and Lower, Trans. Roy. 



Soc. S. Australia, vol. 31, 207, 1907. 

 Platoeceticus macleaiji (Guilding) Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1183, 



lC9d, 1936. 



Male.- — Antennae with pectinations (fig. 371) distinctly shorter 

 than those of C. watsoni; sensory hairs relatively short, approximately 

 1.5x diameter of pectinations, evenly spaced in definite rows. 



Wings fuscous; scales similar to those of C. watsoni. Venation 

 variable, showing 10 and 7 pattern in pair of wings on left side of 

 body and 11 and 7 pattern in right pair; Mi absent in all wings, 

 probably not typical; base of medius not forked within discal cell. 

 Wing expanse 17 mm. 



Male GENiTALiA.^ — (Fig. 251.) Similar to C. gloverii. Lower angles 

 of vinculum rounded, sloping more gradually to saccus than in C. wat- 

 soni. Eighth sternite (fig. 197) similar to that of C. watsoni but with 

 furcal arms more slender. 



Female. — Not examined. 



Case. — Not examined. In the original description of 0. macleayi, 

 Guiding indicates that the larval case is approximately 20 mm. long, 



