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Pleclrocnemia aiiricepM Bks. — Head with much golden hair; i)alpi 

 yellowish brown, basal. joint of antennse yellowish, beyond dark brown, strongly 

 crenate within ; prothorax yellow, with golden hair, and golden tufts on mesotho- 

 rax in front; thorax and abdomen brown, margins of abdominal segments nar- 

 rowly yellowish; legs yellow, hind tibiae brown. Wings brown, densely marked 

 with patches of golden hair between the veins, which are brown ; a larger spot 

 at the arculus; fringe golden, interrupted with brown at tips of the veins; dis- 

 cal cell not one half as long as its pedicel, fork 1 not pedicellate, fork 3 with a 

 pedicel not one-half its length ; hindwings blackish. Expanse 27 mm. 



Oue male from Black Mt., North Carolina (Beutenraiiller), Juue. 



Cyrnus fratenins n. sp. — Head with whitish hair in front, brown from 

 the posterior warts; palpi brown; anteunte pale yellowish, narrowly annulate 

 with brown ; thorax and abdomen brown, former with yellowish and gray hair,:, 

 legs very jiale yellowish. Wings uniformly pale brown, clothed with yellowish 

 and black hair; fringe mostly black, especially so at outer apical angle; hind- 

 wings dusky, fringe dark. Forewings rather long and narrow ; fork 3 has a 

 pedicel nearly as long as self, fork 4 but little longer than 3. Expanse 10 mm. 



Several specimens from Plummer's Island, Md., August. 

 Differs from C. pa/,lklus in larger size, in longer fork 3, in darker 

 color, and in genital parts. 



A TO PSYCHE n. gen. 



A Hydropsychid rear Philopotanius; spurs 2, 4, 4, three distinct 

 ocelli, both branches of median vein forked, and the forks very 

 long. Differs from Philopotamas in that the discal cell is long, and 

 placed before middle of wing, the apical cells all being remarkably 

 long. Ill hindwings the discoidal cell is not closed. The maxillary 

 palpi are slender, the last joint nearly as long as the preceding one. 

 There is a median elevation upon the face. 



Type. — A . tripauctata. 



Atopsyche tripuuctata n. sp.— Head brown, face with black bristles 

 and some white hair intermixed. A tuft of gray hair between antennse and one 

 on middle of vertex behind; basal joints of the antennse black, others brown, 

 tipped with pale. Mesothorax brown, with tufts of black bristles and white 

 hairs. Metathorax paler; abdomen pale, darker above than below; legs pale; 

 anterior femora dark ; fore and middle tibiaj dark, with a yellow band just be- 

 yond middle, and a yellow tip; basal tarsal joints dark. Wings brown, with 

 long black bristles on veins, semi-erect; scattered over the surface, mostly in 

 apical part, are many white hairs in patches, elsewhere brown and black hairs; 

 pterostigma very heavy and dark, a pale spot at base and another at tip; pale 

 spots on apical fringe at end of each vein. In the membrane of wing are three 

 narrow hyaline spots, one on arculus, one on median vein just before the connec- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. S.XXII. (3) DECEMBER, 1905. 



