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41. Biopsyche apicalis (Hampson) 



Figures 34, 1G6, 183, 226, 283, 283a, 346, 381; Map 6 



Thanatopsyche apicalis Hampson, Aiin. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, p. 180, 

 1904.— Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 184, 1929.— 

 Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1181, 1936. 



Biopsyche apicalis (Hampson) Dyar, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, p. 178, 1905. — 

 Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 183, 1929. 



Male. — (Fig. 34.) Antennae with approximately 40 segments. 

 Pronotum clothed with white hairs ; head, remainder of thorax, abdo- 

 men with fuscous hairs. Epiphysis % length of foretibia, arising about 

 % distance from base of that segment. 



Membrane of wing not as lustrous as B. thoracica; wings more 

 abundantly scaled: scales (fig. 346) browner, slightly narrower (in 

 corresponding positions) than in B. thoracica; veins darkly outlined 

 (because of heavier scaling); dark area of scaling along terminal 

 half of costal margin quite prominent. M2 and 3 of hind wing stalked 

 }^ or more their length, not completely fused in any of four wings 

 examined. Wing expanse 22-26 mm. 



Male genitalia.— (Fig. 283.) As described for genus. 



Case. — Unknown. 



Type. — In the British Museum of Natural History. 



Type locality. — ^Abaco, Bahamas. 



Recorded hosts. — None. 



Distribution. — (Map 6.) Bahama Islands. 



Material examined. — 3 d^cf: 



BAHAMAS: Specific locality unknown, cf , BM; cf, USNM. Bimini, cf , CM. 



19. Oiketicus Guilding 



Oiketicus Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 15, p. 373, 1827. — Double- 

 day, Entomologist, no. 7, p. 97, 1841. — Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 p. 219, 1854.— Walker, List Lep. Insects Brit. Mus., pt. IV, p. 961, 1855.— 

 Heylaerts, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 25, pp. 45, 66, 69, 1881.— Kirby, 

 Cat. Lep. Heter., vol. 1, p. 500, 1892. — Neumoegen and Dyar, Journ. 

 N.Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, p. 118, 1894.— Dyar, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 352, 

 1902 [1903].— Schaus, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, p. 344, 1905.— Dalla 

 Torre, Ent. Jahrb., vol. 36, p. 131, 1927.— Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. 

 Cat., pars 34, p. 193, 1929. — Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, 

 p. 1184, 1936. — McDunnough, Check List Lep. Canada and USA, pt. 2, 

 p. 102, 1939.— Forbes, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 90 no. 2, p. 368, 1942.— 

 Vazquez, Anales Instit. Biol., vol. 13, no. 1, p. 260, 1942. — Betrem, 

 Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 95, p. 334, 1952. — Kozhautshikov, Fauna SSSR, vol. 3, 

 no. 1, p. 320, 1956. 



Oeketicus [sic] Lefebre, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 11, p. 29, pi. 2, fig. 7, 1842. — 

 Pagenstecher, Geogr. Verbreit. Schmett., p. 434, 1909. 



Oeceticus [sic] Burmeister, Descr. Phys. Rep. Argent., Lep., vol 5, p. 395, 1878. — 

 Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 14, p. 483, 1929. 



