BAGWORM MOTHS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 141 



Species of Uncertain Generic Position 



Adult Males Known But Not Examined 



Five species exist that I have been unable to treat or describe 

 properly because of the absence of material or of adequate descrip- 

 tions. They will continue to occupy a questionable taxonomic 

 status until the male moths have been adequately diagnosed and 

 illustrated. Most of the names may represent valid species. 

 Arranged alphabetically, the five names are followed by the original 

 descriptions or a summary thereof, along with additional comments 

 of my own. 



1. Psychoglene basinigra Folder 



Figure 62 



Psychoglene basinigra Felder, in Reise der Novara, Zool. Theil Bd. 2, Al^th. 7, 



Heft. 2, p. 8, pi. 83, fig. 22, 1874. 

 Animula basinigra (Felder) Kirby, Cat. Lep. Heter., vol. 1, p. 506, 1892. — 



Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 185, 1929. — Gaede in 



Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1182, pi. 169d, 1936. 



Male. — (Fig. 62.) Body robust, greyish hairs on thorax. Wings 

 unevenly scaled; outer third of both wings devoid of scales, trans- 

 parent; basal third densely covered with dark scales. Primaries 

 with 11 veins; R3 and 4 stalked for considerable distance; R5 

 apparently absent; base of M simple within cell; Mj and M2 arising 

 equidistant from cell on either side of base of medius; M2 and 3 

 connate. Secondaries 8-veined; Mi and 2 stalked. Wing expanse 

 approximately 18 mm. 



Female and Case. — Unknown. 



Type. — In the British Museum. 



Type locality. — "Brasilia." 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution. — Known only from Brazil. 



Discussion. — With the exception of a brief diagnosis by Gaede 

 (1936), there is no other written description of this genus and species. 

 The original reference consists of a listed name (with locality) and 

 a colored figure. The above, very incomplete description is my own, 

 based solely on the original drawing, and a wing sketch by F. M. 

 Jones, who examined the type while at the British Museum. 



If the original locality reference is correct, this species and perhaps 

 also the genus is unique among New World psychids; only two species, 

 Lumacra hyalinacra and Astala hoffmanni, approach it in pattern. 



