148 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 244 



previously described bag, which eventually may serve to characterize 

 this species as was the circumstance with Oiketicus bergii. 



2. Platoeceticiis chaquensis Koehler 



Figure 123 



Platoeceticus chaquensis Koehler, Physis, vol. 17, pp. 460, 471, pis. I, IV, figs. 5, 

 11, 1939.— Jones, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 71, p. 122, 1945. 



The following is quoted from the original description: 



Cesto: De forma alargada, ovalada; cubierto longitudinal-radialmente con 

 palitos, peciolos de hojas y ramitas delgadas de la planta alimenticia. No estd 

 cubierto con tejido de seda. 



Largo 21-25, m/m ancho mdximo 7-9 mm. 



Crisdlida hembra: Cremdster casi derecho y sin inclinaci6n ventral; doble 

 gancho anal fuertemente doblado; depresion anal suave, con el surco en forma 

 de Y invertida, debajo del cual se halla una Ifnea transversal, fina y curvada; 

 dos verrugas anales, pequeiias, redondas y lisas, colocadas mds arriba de la 

 terminaci6n del surco anal; placa genital sin limitaci6n por li'neas; apertura 

 genital alargada en el medio del segmento penultimo; superficie general lisa, 

 solamente en el ultimo segmento con muy pocas lineas transversales. 



Planta alimenticia: Quebracho bianco {Aspidosperma quebracho-bianco). 



Habitat: Reconquista, Obligado, Chaco (Kohler). 



Cotipos: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Laboratorio de Zoologi'a 

 agricola del Ministerio de Agricultura, colecciones Lizer y Trelles, Breyer y 

 Kohler. 



Material examined. — 2 cases: 



Argentina: Reconquista, case, BM; case, DEI. 



3. Hyaloscotes coniferella (Henry Edwards) 



Figure 124 



Psyche coniferella Henry Edwards, Proc. Acad. Sci., vol. 7, p. 142, 1877.' — 



Dyar, Ent. News, vol. 4, p. 320, 1893.— Jones, Ent. News, vol. 36, p. 163, 



pi. 4, fig. B, 1925. 

 Chalia coniferella (Henry Edwards) Dyar, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, no. 4071, 



1902 [1903] (synonym of H. fragmentella Henry Edwards). 

 Oiketicoides coniferella (Henry Edwards) Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., 



pars 34, p. 100, 1929 (synonym of H. fragmentella Henry Edwards). 

 Hyaloscotes coniferella (Henry Edwards) McDunnough, Check List Lep. Canada 



and USA, part 2, no. 9532, 1939 (synonym of H. fragmentella Henry Edwards). 



The following is quoted from the original description: 



Chrysalis case a little over an inch in length, thickened anteriorally and com- 

 posed of fragments of the leaves of pine, about three lines in length, laid in rows 

 on the silken web and overlapping each other, in the manner of P. graminella 

 and other European species. The fragments diminish in length on the posterior 

 layers. Grass Valley, Cal., on palings and trunks of pine trees. 



Discussion.- — As noted previously under Hyaloscotes fumosa, H. 

 coniferella is probably equivalent to H. fragmentella as well as H. 

 fumosa. If this proves to be the case, after verification of the mi- 



