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Subfamily Psychinae. Female wingless, legless, and naked except for the terminal 

 tuft; never leaving the pupal shell, or only after the eggs are laid; male antennae 

 pectinate; abdomen extremely extensible, conical when retracted; fore wing with 

 all radials preserved or, rarely, one lost, often with a medial lost (by union of 

 M 3 and CUj ?), often with extra veins. Accessory cell not distinct, 1st A con- 

 nected to 2d A by cross vein, or running into 2d A. Hind wing with tip of Sc 

 free, as a spur, the veins toward the margin variable and anastomosing, often 

 with additional spurs, normal in Chalia; M 3 stalked with M 2 or lost. Larva of 

 northeastern species in a fusiform case; with true legs shorter and stouter than 

 usual, with ii higher than i on abdomen. Pupa with cremastral spines subventral 

 ( save in Chalia rileyi ) . 



Male with transparent wings, hind wing subtriangular and small; fore 

 wing more than twice as wide (fig. 101); abdomen conical. Larva with 

 tubercle ii directly over i (fig. 105). Thyridopteryx. 



Male with opaque, smoky wings, broad and ample, the abdomen hardly 

 exceeding them (fig. 102) ; larva with tubercle ii on the annulet behind i. 

 Eurycyttarus. 



Male with translucent smoky, hairy wings, intermediate in width, the hind 

 wing not lobed and relatively small. Fore wing with two veins lost, the rest 

 free; 1st A curving down into 2d A; hind wing with seven veins, all free; 

 the cell short in front. Chalia. 



1. KEARFOTTIA Fernald 



Front smooth, vertex with more or less rough scaling, leaning forward; much 

 as in the CEcophoridse ; palpi oblique, reaching middle of front, second segment 

 with long, loose hair-scales, third porrect; tongue minute; maxillary 1 palpi 

 scaly; no ocelli; antennae rather less than half as long as fore wing, heavily 

 ciliate, the cilia as long as the segments. Fore wing (fig. 104) elliptical, three 

 times as long as wide; with complete venation, the veins from R 2 to Cu, nearly 

 equidistant, Cu 2 a little more widely spaced, R t arising a third of the way out. 

 Hind wing about half as wide, nearly semicircular, Cu, arising two-thirds way 

 out on the cell, anals all present, 2d A forked at base, sinuate, CUj missing, mdcv 

 unusually long and oblique, the simple base of M continued as M 14 ^; udcv short, 

 transverse. Female 'similar with a heavy body and large terminal tuft. Larva 

 unknown. 



The genus would fit almost as well in the Tineidee (between the two sub- 

 families) or in the Yponomeutidse (in the broad sense) as here, but the resem- 

 blance to Narycia and Diplodoma suggest a position near the foot of the Psychid 

 series. 



1. K. albafasciella Fernald. Head, thorax, and basal and apical thirds of fore 

 wing deep brown; middle third cream white, usually with four dark spots along 

 costal, and three along dorsal edge. <$ 8 mm., $ 12 mm. 



July. 



Maryland; southern Ohio; Missouri (?). 



2. SOLENOBIA Zeller 



Characters of the subfamily. No ocelli, M, (?) lost (fig. 103), M 2 and M 3 

 stalked or connate; hind wing with M, and M 3 stalked. A small area of aculese near 

 the base of. cell. Female with a minute lanceolate rudiment of a wing. 



The pupa is similar to that of Tinea, but the rows of spines are triple, ratjier 

 than single; and the maxillee are very short and widely separated, but have distinct 

 maxillary palpi, separated by a suture. The antennas are also shorter than in 

 Tinea. 



