40 Psyche [March 
Micrasema falcata Banks 
Nine specimens were taken at Deep Creek, Bryson City, 
Smoky Mts., Aug. 26 and 27 ; Smokemont, Smoky Mts., N. 
Carolina, Aug. 24; and Andrews, N. Carolina, Aug. 23. 
Rhyacophilid^ 
Rhyacophila fuscula Walker 
Figure 5. 
Ten specimens of this species were collected at the fol- 
lowing localities: Newfound Gap, Smoky Mts., 5000-5200 
ft., Tennessee, Sept. 1; Smokemont, N. Carolina, Aug. 24; 
Bryson City, N. Carolina, Aug. 23-27 ; Nantahala Gorge, 
2000 ft., N. Carolina, Aug. 25. This is the first record of 
the species south of New Jersey known to me. 
Rhyacophila torva Hagen 
Figure 7. 
Rhyacophila torva Hagen, 1861, Syn. Neur. N. A., 296. 
Rhyacophila terminata Banks, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 8: 
132 ; fig. 7. 
Over forty specimens of this species were collected at Nan- 
tahala Gorge, Bryson City and Smokemont, N. Carolina; 
and other specimens were taken between Blowing Rock and 
Linville, N. Carolina; Willets, N. Carolina; Andrews, N. 
Carolina; and Newfound Gap, Smoky Mts., Tennessee. This 
is perhaps the commonest of our eastern species of Rhya- 
cophila. As I have indicated above, Banks’ terminata is 
synonymous with torva; the types of both of these species, 
now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, are identical. 
Betten has suggested 2 that the species which Banks identi- 
fied and figured as torva is the same as nigrita Banks; 
but I am not sure that this is so, since I cannot locate the 
specimen on which Banks based his figure. For purposes 
2 List of the Insects of New York, p. 522, 1926. 
