CLANIA; PLATOECETICUS. By M. Gakde. 
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wing quite hyaline, almost circular, with long whitish hair at the inner margin. <$ 24 mm. Described from the 
Coll. Staitdinger where, however, it is no more present. 
Subfamily: Oeceticinae H.-Schdff. 
In the forewing the two inner-marginal veins anastomose and send several branches to the inner margin. 
The partition vein of both cells is forked. 
12. Genus: Wkr. (Eumeta Wkr., Cryphothelea Wkr.) 
Antennae of $ pectinated to the tips. Hindwing somewhat shorter than in Oiketicus. Forewing with 
stalked veins 4 + 5 and 8 + 9, all the veins present. Vein 8 of the round hindwing mostly sends spurs to the 
costal margin. Anterior tibiae with a long thorn. In Vol. X we enumerated 21 species from the Indo-Australian 
Fauna, in the American Fauna there are but 2 species. 
C. surinamensis Mschlr. The species is describetd as a Psyche and compared by he author with unicolor surinamen- 
Hfn. (Vol. II, pi. 55 a), while Heylaerts has placed it to the genus Clania. Antennae blackish brown, the SIS ‘ 
body somewhat lighter, corresponding with unicolor. Forewing with a straight distal margin and a sharper 
apex than in vilosellae. The colour of the wings is the same as in unicolor. 23 mm. 1 J known from Paramaribo. 
C. brasiliensis Heyl. Similar to surinamensis. Antennae dark brown, with long pectinations up to the bmsUiensis. 
tips. Body and wings blackish brown, densely scaled. Forewing slightly bent at the costal margin. Hindwing 
slightly inserted at the distal margin. $ 23 mm. Brazil. — The bag is about 24 mm long, densely covered with 
pieces of light lichens and darker leaves. The larva is blackish, with yellow dots and streaks, the 3 anterior 
segments yellow. 
13. Genus: IMatoeeeticus Pack. 
Small species, wings broad, vein 6 present in both wings. 
PI. gloveri Pack. (169 c). <$ uniformly dark brown, the $ is oval, whitish. — Larval bag 14—18 mm long, gloveri. 
strongest (5 mm) in the middle. The larva lives on orange trees. 18 mm. Florida. 
PL costaricensis Schs. Body and wings dark greyish brown. Forewing browner in the interior two costaricensis. 
thirds, the veins very dark, veins 4 + 5 on a long stalk. Veins 4 + 5 of hindwing on a short stalk. 34 mm. 
1 d known from Juan Vinas (Costa Rica). 
PL aphaidropa Dyar. Neuration as in costaricensis , but also veins 9 + 10 of the forewing stalked. Fore- aphaidropa. 
wing triangular, hindwing rounded, brown, thinly scaled, with a faint bronze gloss. Forewing with darker 
veins, the apex and distal margin somewhat more bronze. 1 + 19 mm, from Panama. 
PL symmicta Dyar. Forewdng broad with a round apex, hindwing rounded triangular. Ground-colour symmida. 
brown, somewhat lighter on the hindwing. Forewing: veins 8 + 9 stalked, 10 free. On both wings veins 4 
and 5 arise from the same base. 12 mm. Panama. 
PL niarona Schs. Body and wings brownish black. Veins 4 + 5 stalked only in the forewing. 26 mm. marona. 
1 o known from Cayenne. 
PI. rebeli Kohler (169 cl). Described as Chalia, later on placed here by the author. Similar to Ch. kunckeli, rebeli. 
but the shape of the bag is different. Imago blackish brown. The original figure shows a strongly built insect 
with rounded wings. The distal third of the forewdng seems to be lighter, both wings with small light round 
spots (? damaged). - - The bag is 15—25 mm long, quadrangular, irregularly covered with transverse thorns, 
5 mm thick, on Cvnara cardunculus. 
PL macleayi Guild. (169 d). Described as Oiketicus and compared with Oi. kirbyi which has quite maclcayi. 
different contours of the wings and is not in the least similar. Body delicate, abdomen just as long as the hind¬ 
wing. Wings broad, rounded, dark brown. 18 mm. West Indies. - The larval bag is 20 mm long, 5 mm strong, 
conical, covered with projecting little pieces of lichens. We reproduce the original figure of the lepidopteron 
though it is hardly complete. 
The two following species were described as Manatha Mr., but later on placed here by their authors. 
PI. nigrita Barnes & McDunn. (169 cl). Veins 4 and 5 of the forewing may be stalked, but it is rarely nigrita. 
so; 8 + 9, however, are stalked, sometimes also 7+8+9. Veins 4 + 5 of the hindwing sometimes stalked. 
A bar from vein 8 to the cell seems to be absent. Size and colouring of the imago similar to that of Eur. 
edwardsii (169 b), but of a somewhat duller black, separated by the neuration. $ 16—18 mm. — The larval 
bag resembles that of confederata, it is interwoven with fine particles of grass and outside longitudinally covered 
with short caulicles of grass. Described according to 7 <£<$ from Florida and Texas. According to Dyar, the 
imagines of nigrita and gloveri are not discernible. 
