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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Kambub (Oat. Syst. L^p. d’Andalusie, ii. p. 811) describes his Ptiloce- 
phala plumosella in full. (Figured 1. c. i. pi. 3. fig. 3.) He also describes in 
full and figures P. malvinella, Mill. 1. q. ii. p. 312, pi. 14. fig. 6. 
Thyridopieryx ephemerceformis, Haw. The habits and transformations of 
this insect (the ‘‘bagworm/’ ‘‘basket-worm,” or “drop-worm” of the 
Americans) are described and figured by Riley, First Report on Insects of 
Missouri, pp. 147-161, fig. 84. 
ScuBDEii (Harris Correspondence) publishes Harris’s and Miss Morris’s 
descriptions of the Drop-worm or Basket-worm {Oiketicus cmifei'arum, 
Harr. MSS.), pp. 177, 242, 246, 299, f. 28, pi. 3. f. 4. He also publishes 
Harris’s and Melsheimer’s notes on the Tarious stages of Perophora mehhei- 
meri, pp. 112, 113, 160-152 j and see Newman’s Entomologist, 1842, pp. 99- 
101 . 
Oiketicus. Macalister (Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Dubl. v. pp. 129-136) de- 
scribes the cases of O. saundersiif O. lewinn, O, herrichii (fig. 1), O. huhneri^ 
O. careyij n. sp., fig. 2, and O. macalister% n. sp., fig. 3. He also describes a 
pupa-case, probably new, which he does not consider to belong to an Oike- 
ticus. He adds, “ From the cases themselves some assistance might be de- 
rived in the clas.sification of this gi-oup. There are two natural divisions 
into which they might be arranged : — first, those perforated at both ends ; 
and secondly, those with but one pervious end. Of the first group we have ; 
— first, those with the twigs adherent for their whole length, including 0. 
saundersu and 0. lewmi, distinguished from each other by the first having 
sticks disposed spirally and separate, and the second having but one row ex- 
tending for the whole length of the sac, and being nearly closed at one end ; 
secondly, those with twigs pendulous, attached by but one extremity, as O. 
hiihneri. Of those in which the perforation is but at one end we have three 
forms: — first, not ornamented with twigs, as O. herrichii) secondly, with 
irregularly disposed twigs, as O. careyi j thirdly, with even, regular fasces of 
twigs in storeys, as O. crameri and O. macalisterV' 
PsychideidcSf nov. fam., Ramb. Cat. Syst. L(5p. d’And. ii. p. 813. Contains 
the genera Epichnopteryx, Fumea, and Psychidea (n. g.). Rambur considers 
this gi'oup to stand between the genera Psyche and Talceporia^ and thus to 
connect the PsychidcB and Tineidce. 
New genera and species : — 
Trichopsyche, Wallengren, Scand. Heter. ii. p. 61. Subcostal nervure of 
the hind wings entirely free, not miited to the median vein by a transverse 
nervure. Type T./usca, Haw. 
Carchesiopsyche, Walleugr. 1. c. p. 62. Subcostal nervure of hind wings 
entirely absent. Wallengren refers the following described species of Psy- 
chidce to this genus; — plumifera,Z^\.) muscella, W. V. ; angustella, H.-S. j 
plumistrella, Hb. ; and hirsutella, W. V. 
Cochliotheca, Rambur, Cat. Syst. L^p. d’Andalusie, ii. p. 801. Type 
Psyche helicinella^ H.-S. 
PtilocephalUf Rambur, 1. c. p. 307. Type Psyche mediterranean Led. 
PsychideUf Ramb. 1. c. p. 313, note. Type Epichnopteryx pectinellun auct. 
Oiketicus careyi^ Macalister, Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Dubl. v. p. 133, fig. 2, 
Angaston, S. Australia ) O. macalisteri, Macal. 1. c. p. 134, fig. 3, Gipps 
Land. The cases alone of tliese new species are described and figured. 
