35G (JANEPHOKA; AMICTA. By Dr. E. Stram). 



pectinations not scaled. Legs of moderate lengths, with long hair. Fore tibia with long spine; hind tibia 

 unarmed. $ vermiform, very robust, with atrophied limbs, but eye-spots and small antennal tuberc-les 

 present. Thoracical segments with dark dorsal plates, abdominal segment 10 modified into a small ovi- 

 positor. Larva witli small, rounded, hairy head, the segments of anterior half of abdomen broadest, thoracical 

 plates hornj% with paler lines, anal segment chitinous. Larva-case irregularly covered with strong material, 

 the particles only being fastened to the central silky case with one end. 



villosella. P. villosella 0. (= grandiella Bdv., viciella H6m., magniferella Bnl., hievacii Kirhy) {i>iyA). S blackish 



to reddisli grey, tlie discocellular prominent as a black bar in both wings, fringes and costal margin darker 

 than the surface of the wings. Body with long hair. Expan.se 27^28 mm. The $ yellowish white with 

 brown dorsal plates to the thorax and a similar but smaller plate on first abdominal segment ; antenna with 

 2 segments; head with numerous thin bristles. The species is on the wing in June and July, being known 

 from Central Europe, Soutlieru Scandinavia and Finland, St. Petersbourg, Northern Italy, Southern France, 



nJ</ricaHs. Dalmatia, Southern Russia, Asia Minor, Turkestan and Armenia. — nigricans Curt. (= nigrieantella Brd.), 

 from England, is. according to Bruaxd, always a little larger than continental specimens, and the di.scocellular 

 of the hinlwing is more vertical (mstead of being strongly oblique as in the name-tyi)ical form) and di- 

 vided by the cell-vein into two even halves which have exactly the same direction. The distinctness of this 

 lurkUa. form as a variety appears to be very doubtful. — hirtella Ev. (= casanella Brd.) is also a questionable form, 

 differing from true villosell'i according to Bruand in small details of the neuration, whereas according to Hey- 



cinerella. LAERTS hirtella is based on large specimens which do not otherwise differ from villoselln. Kasan. — cinerella 

 Dup. is said to have the forewing a little narrower and the antenna shorter; the colouring is less brown and 

 more ashy grey than in the mam form, the neuration is also said to differ slightly. France. — All these 

 secondary form liave been mentioned by Ti^tt (1900), who however also says that the distinctions on which 

 they are based are but doubtfully established. — Larva dirty broM-nish with darker dorsum and black-brown 

 thoracical plates, which bear a whitish yellow median stripe and broad lateral ones of the same colour. It feeds 

 usually for 2 years on Calluna, Salix, Birch, Polygonum, Myrica and other plants. The j^-case is very roughly 

 covered with dry leaves and twigs, the V-case beas a very strong covering of stalks of grass and bits of twigs 

 placed longitudinally and being raised. 



6. Genus: Caiiepliora Hbri. 



J. Closely related to Pachythelia and united with it by most authors, but it differs at first glance 

 by the entire wings being rather densely scaled, while they are only partially scaled in Pachythelia and there- 

 fore semitransparent. Moreover, the wings are broader, the distal margui of the forewing is almost straight 

 and but slightly oblique, forming almost a right angle with the hind margin, whereas in Pnchythelia the 

 wings are more elongate, the distal margin of the forewing more oblique and convex, the hind angle being broadly 

 rounded. Fringes shorter. There are no essential differences in the neuration; 4 and 5 of forewing separate, 

 though close together, stalk of 8 and 9 as long as or a little shorter than the free branches, 10 much 

 farther away from 11 than from 9; in the hindwing 4 and 5 close together but separate. Legs and body 

 with the hair less long, the body less robust. The $ has distinct vestiges of eyes, antennae and legs, being 

 altogether less reduced than the ? of Pachythelia. 



ttnivolor. C. unicolor Hiifn. (= graminella Schiff., paleiferella Brd.) (55 a). cJ sooty black, very large for a Pale- 



arctic Psychid, exjjanse 20 mm, the distal half of the fringes whitish, hair of body blackish grey, beneath 

 considerably paler and with a silky gloss, antenna pale greyish. $ brownish white with dark thoracical plates 

 and a similar but smaller one on dorsum of first abdominal segment. — Larva yelloMish to grey-brown, 

 with dark anal plate and black head; the thoracical plates yellowish with black double stripes and a black 

 lateral stripe. The case of the J-larva bears a very long dirty white tube and is covered with dry leaves; the 

 $-case is for one half rough with raised dry bits of grass. The larva is annual and feeds on grass. — In Central 

 Europe with the exception of England, in Southern Scandinavia, northern districts of South Europe, Armenia, 

 Ussuri districts; however, it is doubtful whether it occurs in Eastern Asia together with the next species. 



asiaika. C. asiatica Stgr. (55 a) is smaller (19 — ^23 mm) and less deep black than unicolor, the forewing semitrans- 



parent greyisli black, palest distally; the fringes somewhat paler, especially beneath. — The larva-cases are 

 said to be very different from those of unicolor, bearing a less abundant covering, and strongly to resemble 

 the cases of Acanthopsyche atra. — Central Asia, China (Fu-chou), Japan. 



7. Genus : Amlcta Heijl. 



cj: Antenna as in Pachythelia bipectinate to the tip, the shaft non-scaled. Venation as iji Pachy- 

 thelia, but veiii Ic of forewhig, if at all present, runs free into the distal margin, and the stalk of 8, 9 is 

 very short, at least much shorter than the free ends of these veins. Wings sparsely clothed with scale- 



