Proceedings of 
the United States 
National Museum 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION + WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Volume 120 1966 Number 3559 
STUDIES OF NEOTROPICAL CADDIS FLIES, II 
TYPES OF SOME SPECIES DESCRIBED BY ULMER AND 
BRAUER 
By OLIver S. Fuint, Jr. 
Curator, Division of Neuropteroids 
Georg Ulmer described 67 species of Trichoptera from South and 
Central America and the West Indies during the years 1905 to 1913. 
His work, which established a basis for subsequent studies on this 
fauna, was excellent by standards of his day. By present-day 
standards, however, most of his illustrations of the genitalia are 
inadequate because he did not clear these important structures before 
figuring them. 
Friedrich Brauer described only two species of caddis flies from 
this region—one from Mexico, the other from Brazil. The latter 
species, the type of which has been redescribed, presents no particular 
problems. The former, for which he proposed a new genus, has been 
neither redescribed nor rediscovered subsequently. 
During the past few years I have been able to borrow the types 
of nearly half of Ulmer’s species and of both of Brauer’s species. 
Many of these species were described from series, which in a few 
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