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suggests that tlie cocoonet was furnished with a " lid," which has now 

 become lost. 



Subfamily Psychiinae. 



PSYCHE, Oehsen. 

 Psyche confederata, n. s. (Plate 3, figs. 66 and 67 % .) 



% . — Entirely deej) smoky black. Antennae plumose. Wings 

 ample, closely scaled, rounded and full. Neuration of primaries : 

 costal nervure simple, slight, joining the costa before the apex; s. c. 

 nervure throwing off first and second s. c. nervules from its upper side 

 on to the costal margin ; third s. c. nervule at the upper extremity of the 

 discal cell furcate, throwing off the fourth s. c. nervule from its lower 

 side on to the apex; fifth simple, thrown off from a short transverse 

 stem on to the external margin ; discal cell equilateral, longitudinally 

 cordate, not closed by a true vein, but by a veinlike fold depressedly 

 medially angulated ; a slight crease in the membrane divides the cell 

 into two equal parts, running from the point of angulation of the fold 

 closing the cell to the base of the wing; median nervure four branched, 

 first median thrown off upon external margin from a point opposite 

 the fifth s. c. nervule; internal nervure sending off an angulated 

 nervule from its upper side, at about its center, to internal angle, the 

 nervure itself joins the margin before the angle, and is straight. 



The % cocoonet with agglutinated fragments of conifereous plants, 

 and with the extruded skin of the chrysalis after the escape of the 

 male moth, accompanied a number of specimens of this species re- 

 ceived from the South. 



Expanse^% 19 mil. Length ofhody^ 7 mil. 



Habitat. — Texas. (Belfrage). The male imago flies in May and 

 June. 



As yet the only species described from our Territory, and probably 

 the one figured by Prof. Glover from Florida, and alluded to by Dr. 

 Packard in the Synopsis of U. S. Bombycidae. Of the European 

 species of this genus in our Collection it resembles P. concolor (Staud. 

 Cat.) in its close squaniation, but is one-half smaller and of a deeper 

 black. 



Subfamily Ptilodontinae. 



ICTHYURA, Hiibner. 

 Icthyura ornata, n. s. 



9 . — Allied to Icth, inclusa, Iliihn., and Icth. inversa, PacJc, as 

 well as to the European Icth. reclusa. Head, body and appendages 

 obscure grey. The usual deep brown thoracic stripe, extending over 



