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Psyche 
[ March 
elusive of the secondary sexual characters mentioned in the 
generic description. 
Holotype ( $ ) : Black Mt., North Carolina, June; in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Allotype, by present designation : Bryson City, Deep 
Creek, North Carolina, 2000 ft., Aug. 25, 1930; N. Banks, 
collector. 
In addition to the allotype, 11 specimens were collected 
in 1930: 9 at Bryson City, North Carolina, from Aug. 25- 
27 ; 1 at Smokemont, North Carolina, 2000 ft., Aug. 24; and 
1 at Newfound Gap, Smoky Mts., Tennessee, 5000-5200 ft., 
Sept. 1. 
Oligopsyche, new genus 
$ Spurs, 2, 4, 4 ; ocelli absent ; mouth-parts vestigial, the 
maxillary palpi reduced to a pair of small papillae bearing a 
few short hairs; mandibles and labrum completely absent; 
labial palpi short, with 3 segments; basal segment of an- 
tennae slender, long, and very hairy ; fore wings broad, and 
bearing a prominent fringe of light yellow hairs ; Rs arising 
close to base of wing ; M fused with Rs at the base ; Rs and 
M with two branches each; Cu unbranched. Female un- 
known. 
Genotype: Notiopsyche Carolina Banks. The genitalia 
have been figured by Banks (1911). 
The species for which this genus is established is one of 
the most unusual in the family Sericostomatidae. One of 
the outstanding features of the members of the family is 
the elaboration of the maxillary palpi of the male, which 
are usually enlarged. In Carolina , the opposite condition 
has been developed ; the palpi are almost entirely lost. This 
reduction of the palpi is probably a part of the much greater 
modification, the atrophy of all the mouth-parts. The vena- 
tion is also much more reduced than is usual in the Seri- 
costomatids. 
Phanopsyche grisea Banks 
Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 1911, 37: 357; fig. 17 (wing),, 
fig. 22 (genitalia) . 
