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PSYCHE. 



[February 1S93 



The antennae of the male are moderately 

 short, heavily pectinated, of the female 

 equally long but less heavily pectinated. The 

 pectinations are margined on both sides with 

 delicate hairs and have a spur on the outer 

 edge near the extremity. The legs are hirsute 

 with two spurs upon the tibiae of the last 

 pair. The abdomen in the male has two 

 minute tufts upon the dorsal line hack of the 

 thorax. The radial on the primaries and the 

 secondaries springs from near the bottom of 

 the cell. The primaries are subtriangular 

 with the costa very moderately convex, or 

 nearly straight for two-thirds of the distance 

 from the base with the apex rounded and the 

 outer margin evenly convex, the inner angle 

 is rounded, and the inner margin slightly 

 convex before the base. The secondaries are 

 sub-pyriform with the outer margin evenly 

 rounded. The prevalent coloration is obscure 

 brown and gray. The larva is characterized 

 by the habit of forming social cocoons, a 

 multitude of individuals weaving a common 

 covering of silk, which is applied to the 

 trunks of trees and similar situations and 

 presents the appearance of a fungoid growth, 

 within which each larva weaves a smaller 

 cocoon in which it undergoes final transform- 

 ation. 



Oecwra Goodii, sp. nov, <J . Palpi, front 

 and collar dark brown. Antennae testaceous. 

 The patagiae are brown margined externally 

 and internally by a few grayish hairs, or 

 scales. The upper part of the abdomen im- 

 mediately back of the thorax is grayish, the 

 remainder of the abdomen is pale brown with 

 an ochraceous tint on the sides. The under- 

 side of the thorax and the abdomen is obscure 

 ochraceous. The legs are brown with the 

 tibiae and tarsi annulated with whitish. The 

 primaries are dark brown with some greenish- 

 gray markings near the base, a broad green- 

 ish-gray spot on the inner margin near the 

 middle succeeded by a transverse crenulate 

 limbal line of black. The margin is marked 

 on the interspaces with greenish-gray spots, 



which increase from the apex as far as the 

 third median nervule, then diminish and 

 widen again to the outer angle, which is 

 whitish. These spots are all marked on the 

 middle by a narrow dark line. The fringes 

 are dark brown checked with pale gray at 

 the ends of the nervules, but at the outer 

 angle the fringe is whitish. The secondaries 

 are fuscous with an obscure discocellular 

 mark and a submarginal transverse band. 

 The fringes are as on the primaries from the 

 outer angle to just before the anal angle, at 

 which they are uniformly gray. The under 

 side is pale fuscous with the middle area of 

 the primaries clouded with pale fuliginous. 

 Both wings have an obscure discal dot at the 

 end of the cell. Both are traversed from the 

 costa by an incomplete brownish transverse 

 median line. The primaries have in addition 

 a parallel transverse submarginal band. 



$ . Female almost exactly like the male 

 but larger. Expanse, cT, 33 mm. ; $? , 45 mm. 



Anaphe, Walk. 



A. clara, sp. nov. $ . Very like A. 

 Moloneyi, Druce, but readily distinguished 

 from that species by the fact that the nervules 

 are not black at their extremities upon the 

 upper side, and by the fact that on the lower 

 side the primaries have the cell clouded with 

 chocolate and the apex as far as the third 

 median is heavily marked with blackish 

 scales. There is also a dark brown mark 

 upon the secondaries at the middle of the 

 costa. The species is also prevalently smaller 

 in size than A. Moloneyi. Expanse $ , 30 to 

 40 mm. ; ? , 65 mm. 



A. subsordida, sp. nov. §. Allied to 

 A. Moloneyi but with the wings narrower and 

 more elongate, having but one transverse 

 black line which is connected with the dark 

 outer margin by a heavy black ray running 

 along the radial and by a similar black ray 

 on the extremity of the first median nervule. 

 On the under side the markings of the upper 

 side reappear, but almost the entire apical 



