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Female and Case. — Unknown. 



Type. — In the United States National Museum. 



Type locality. — Merida, Venezuela. 



Recorded hosts.- — ^None. 



Distribution.- — (Map 9.) Known from the Maracaibo Basin of 

 Venezuela south through the lower altitudes of the Andean System 

 to Peru. 



Discussion.- — The large size, broad wings, and wing scaling sepa- 

 rate this species rather easily from all other members of Oiketicus. 

 Superficially, however, certain large specimens of 0. platensis may 

 closely resemble 0. specter but differ decisively in the condition of 

 the epiphysis and in the distribution ranges. These two species 

 can be separated further by the relative obliqueness of the hyaline 

 bar, that of 0. specter being more slanted. 



Material EXAMINED.- — -14 cfcf: 



COLOMBIA: Popayan, d', USNM. South Antonio, 2 c? cf, April 18, BM. 

 PERU: Hecda Taulis, 6°50' S., 79°10' W., d', April 18, BM. 

 VENEZUELA: Merida, d, type, 2 dd, USNM; 4 dd, BM; 2 dd, PM; 

 d, ZMHU. 



49. Oiketicus townsendi townsendi Townsend 



Figures 50, 101, 102, 147, 148, 290, 309, 356; Map 12 



Oikelic^is toivnscndi Townsend, Zoe, vol. 4, p. 356, Jan. 1894. — Dyar, Ann. N.Y. 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 8, pp. 198, 205, May 1894.— Cockerell, Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 15, pp. 208-209, 1895.— Dyar, Can, Ent., vol. 27, p. 242, 1895; 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, no. 4063, 1902 [1903].— Cockerell, Entomologist, 

 vol. 46, p. 73, figs. 1-6, 1913. — Jones, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 52, pp. 

 5-6, 1926.— Jones and Parks, Tex. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 283, p. 21, figs. 15, 

 18, 1928.— Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 194, 1929.— Gaede 

 in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1185, 1936. — McDunnough, Check 

 List Lep. Canada and USA, pt. 2, no. 9515, 1939. — Vazquez, Anales Listit. 

 Biol., vol. 13, no. 1, p. 280, 1942. 



Oiketicus honniioelli Barnes and Benjamin, Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc, vol. 19, p. 24, 

 1924 (new synonymy). — Jones and Parks, Tex. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 382, 

 p. 22, figs. 15, 18, 1928.— Dalla Torre and Strand, Lep. Cat., pars 34, p. 

 193, 1929.— Gaede in Seitz, Macrolep. World, vol. 6, p. 1185, 1936. 



Oiketicus townsendi var. bonniwelli Barnes and Benjamin. — Jones, Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. 52, p. 5, 1926. — McDunnough, Check List Lep. Canada and 

 USA, pt. 2, no. 9515a, 1939. 



Male. — (Fig. 50.) Vesture of body dark yellowish brown. An- 

 tennae with outer fourth biserrate, 34-41 segments. Epiphysis weak, 

 approximately % fore tibia in length. Mid-, hindtibiae each with 

 single apical spur. 



Wings relatively broad, evenly scaled; venation with little variation, 

 usual 12 and 8 pattern. Primaries with outer margin not strongly 

 oblique, hyaline bar slanting parallel to it; discal scales (fig. 356) 

 oblanceolate, distinctly carinate, with variable apices usually minutely 



