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In describing their new species Platoeceticus jonesi, Barnes and 

 Benjamin seemingly were very careful to compare it with C. nigrita 

 and not with the more closely related fonn G. gloverii. Jones (1945) 

 expressed his opinion that P. jonesi and C. gloverii represented the 

 same species. I have concluded, for reasons smiilar to Jones', that 

 these two names are conspecific and do not deserve even racial status, 



Vazquez, in her paper on the Mexican Psychidae (1941), evidently 

 has illustrated and described the species C. gloverii erroneously as 

 Oiketicoides tristis. She begins her descriptions of this taxon with 

 a quotation of Heylearts' diagnosis of Oiketicoides and then proceeds 

 to the specific description, wherein she clearly has mistaken the hind- 

 legs for the prothoracic pair. Her illustrations and written descrip- 

 tion — "Patas (fig. B, Lam. 1) del color general cuerpo, 'las anteriores 

 con una espina en las tibias' y de tamaiio menor que las posteriores"- — ■ 

 indicate this error. Figure B, plate 1, shows a leg labelled "pata 

 anterior" with a small apical spur on the tibia, a characteristic that is 

 not found on the foreleg of any of the psychids of this hemisphere. 

 Fm'thermore, her illustrations of the male genitalia are definitely 

 Cryptothelea gloverii. A male specimen, now deposited in the American 

 Museum of Natural History and identified by Vazquez as Oiketicoides 

 tristis, has been re-examined and determined to be C. gloverii. 



Material examined.— 200 cf (f, 10 99, 107 cases: 



UNITED STATES: Arizona: White Mts., 7 cases (identification question- 

 able), USNM. Florida: Brooksville, case, USNM. Coconut Grove, 4 cf cf , 

 USNM. Crescent City, cf , Aug. 13, USNM. Deep Lake, Allen River, March 14, 

 AMNH. Ft. Meade, c?, April, USNM. Ft. Myers, cf, May 1-7, USNM. 

 Freeport, case, USNM. Gainesville, cf, May 5, USNM. Homestead, 2 cf d^, 

 March 6-10; 10 (?&, Sept. 9-Oct. 14, CPK. Jacksonville, cf, July 8, ANS; 

 case, USNM. Key West, <f, Feb. 24; d", Oct.; 4 cf cf, 23 cases, USNM. Lake 

 Placid, 3 d^d', March 29-May 5, CU; 2d'c?', Feb. 8, March 21, CPK; 20 d'd', 

 March 27-April 3, RWH; d", Nov. 12, CPK. Miami, 3 d'd', Aug. 12-22; d', 

 USNM. Orlando, 2 c^d^, March 17, May 28, USNM. Paradise Key, d^, Feb. 

 22; d', USNM. Port Sewal, 2 d^ d', Feb. 1-9; d, Nov. 19, AMNH. Rockledge, 

 d, April 20, USNM. Royal Palm State Park, d, Jan. 20; 3 dd, March 20-29; 

 d, USNM. St. Petersburg, d, April 28; d, June; d", Oct., USNM. Sebring, 

 d, Sept. 10, MCZ. Siesta Key, 2 d^ d^, April 20, 29; d, Oct. 25, USNM. Weeki 

 Wachi Springs, d'. May 13, CPK. Georgia: Savannah, 2 d^ d^, June 10, 19, 

 CU. Louisiana: New Orleans, 7 dd, April 10-May 13; 2 d' d^, Sept. 15-20, 

 27 cases, USNM. Mississippi: Biloxi, d, June 13, CU; d, USNM. Gulfport, 

 9 d d with cases, June 20-26; d with case, July 24; 8 ?? with cases, June 25; 

 29 cases, USNM. Long Beach, 5 d" d' with cases, Sept. 11-24, USNM. South 

 Carolina: Charleston, 2 d' d'. May 24, 28; ?, Sept. 10; 12 cases, USNM. Myrtle 

 Beach, d, June 25, MCZ. Texas: Brownsville, 6 d^ d', April 13-May 29, 10 

 cases, USNM; 2 d' d', April 13, BM. Corpus Christi, 3 d^ d', April 15-May 22; 

 9 d^ d^, July 10; S dd, Aug. 3-Sept. 25, CU. Kingsville, 2 d' d', April 15, CU. 

 Mercedes, 13 dd, Aug. 24-Nov. 4, AMNH; 31 cases, CPK. San Antonio, 5 

 cPd, April 1-May 31; 32 cases, 9 (identification questionable), USNM. San 

 Benito, d", type, M. jonesi, Aug. 1-7; 3 d" d', May 8-23; 2 d" d", June 16-23; 



