PSYCHE 
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VOL. XL SEPTEMBER, 1933 
No. 3 
TWO WASP-GUESTS FROM PUERTO RICO 
(MICROLEPIDOPTERA) . 
By Wm. T. M. Forbes, 
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
The two following species were reared by Mr. Francisco 
Sein, Jr., from nests of Polistes, along with the well-known 
Setomorpha insectella , and two Pyralids, which are to be 
included in Dr. Schaus’s revision of that family. One of 
these new species which is accompanied by the pupa has 
also been found in Cuba, making a description perhaps more 
advisable. 
Taeniodictys, new genus 
Head with smooth flat occiput, heavily tufted vertex, and 
smooth, strongly retreating front. Ocelli invisible, appar- 
ently absent; eyes large, labial palpi moderate, obliquely 
upturned or drooping (loosely held), clothed with irregular 
bristly scales, but without true bristles ; maxillary palpi of 
folded type, the visible part short, drooping on each side of 
tongue, which is naked. Antennae with scape broad, con- 
cave and bristly-scaled, covering over half of eye but hardly 
a true eyecap, without pecten; shaft 5/6, smoothly scaled 
with one whorl to a segment. Body nearly cylindrical, the 
coxa not flattened against the body; mid-tibiae smooth- 
scaled, normal, hind tibiae with spurs at 2/5, clothed above 
with bristly hairs, which are long except before the upper 
