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Psyche 
[Sept.-Dee. 
dark; antennae brown, basal joint pale yellowish; pronotum 
pale, with a median black line distinct in front and behind, the 
side margins of anterior lobe also brown; mesonotum with a 
broad brown area through the middle, and a brown stripe each 
side above wing-base, a yellowish stripe each side between the 
brown; abdomen dark brown to black, the tips of some seg- 
ments narrowly pale; legs yellowish, front femora and tibiae 
dark brown, inner side of femora partly pale, the long spine 
yellowish, others brown. 
Wings hyaline, stigma brown, a pale yellowish-brown streak 
between the subcosta and radius; venation mostly dark brown 
to black, toward base of wings some veins are pale. 
Structure similar to sayi and cine tic ornis] each radial cell 
with two or three branches. 
Length 14 mm. 
Holotype from Pennsylvania, 1858 (P. R. Uhler). 
Type M.C.Z. 22132. Paratype, Starved Rock, 111. 4 Aug. 
(F. G. Werner). 
Differs from sayi and cincticornis in the almost entirely black 
abdomen, and in that the dark face mark extends upward on 
front to the vertex. 
Specimens from the Field Museum taken at Palos Park, 
Edgebrook, Lombard, and Dowers Creek in Illinois in July, 
August, September, and November are paratypes, also from 
Delaware, Wisconsin. In the females several joints of the an- 
tennae near the apical third are yellowish. 
Order TRICHOPTERA 
Phryganeid^e 
Banksiola crotchi sp. nov. 
In general appearance very similar to the common Eastern 
species which has been considered (but wrongly) “ concate - 
nata”\ the fore wings banded and spotted in the same manner, 
also the apical part of hind wing is marked as in that species; 
the venation is also on the same plan. 
But the claspers of the male show a striking difference; 
seen from behind each shows two widely separated processes 
or teeth, one very slender at the extreme inner end, the other 
much further out is broader and larger. (In “ concatenata ” so- 
