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Psyche 
[February- 
A NEW FOSSIL MOTH FROM FLORISSANT. 
By T. D. A. Cockerell, 
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 
Many years ago, a fossil insect, supposed at the time to 
belong to Trichoptera, was found by Mr. Geo. N. Rohwer at 
Station 14 in the Miocene Shales of Florissant, Colorado. By 
some oversight, it had not been studied until yesterday, when I 
took it out to show to some students as an example of a fossil 
caddis-fly. A little examination revealed unexpected characters, 
and upon close study it was found that we had no caddis, but a 
moth. With the higher power of the binocular it was easy to 
see the scales, which thickly covered the anterior wings. On one 
side the wings are spread, so that their outline can be clearly 
seen; but T cannot make out the venation of the hind wings, nor 
that of the anal area of the anterior pair. It is also difficult to 
see exactly the condition at the apex of the cellula intrusa, but I 
believe I have drawn it correctly, in which case it presents no 
unique features. The genus may be definitely referred to the 
Cossidse, and the general aspect is not unlike that of species of 
Zeuzera, Givira or Comadia. The abdomen, which I have drawn 
thick and short, is evidently lacking the apical part, and it may 
well have been long as in most existing Cossidse. 
Adelopsyche new genus 
Rather small, thick bodied moths, the anterior wings long, 
with subparallel margins, broadly rounded at apex, heavily 
scaled, without spots or bands, but probably finely speckled. 
Scales fairly broad, suboval or more elongate, apically bidentate. 
Veins strong, basally stout; Ri, leaving common stem about as 
far from radial cell as length of that cell; radial cell small, cunei- 
form, emitting the quite simple R 2 and R s ; from the end of the 
cell (in the sense of lepidopterists,) and above the median cell or 
cellula intrusa, arise R 4 , Rs and Mi, the first two (which are 
simple to the end) well apart, but R 5 and Mi from a common 
