212 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



GENUS CECETICUS. 



Oiketicus^ Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xv. p. 375(1837); 

 Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1854, p. 219; Walker, 

 List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 961 (1855). 



Male pilose, the mouth-parts rudimentary ; antennae strongly 

 pectinated, serrated towards the tips. Wings long and narrow, 

 but rounded at the tips ; fore-wings twice as long as the hind- 

 wings. Abdomen moderately stout, and very long, extending 

 for almost its whole length beyond the hind-wings. Female 

 apterous, ovipositing in its case. 



This genus includes a few closely-allied species, and is met 

 with from the Southern United States to Uruguay. The generic 

 name is sometimes applied to species occurring in the Old 

 World, but these are now usually referred to separate genera. 



CECETICUS KIRBII 

 (Page 211, Figs. 1.5., 



Oiketicus kirbii) Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xv. p. 375, 



pis. 6, 7 (1837); Westwood, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1854, 



p. 221, pi. 134, fig. 2. 

 Oiketicus poeyi, Lucas, in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Nat. Cuba, 



Anim. Art. p. 724 (1857). 

 Oiketicus fulger at or ) Herrich-SchafTer, Aussereurop. Schmett. i. 



fig. 520 (1856). 

 Psyche (Oiketicus) gigantea, Zeller, Stett. Ent. Zeitung, xxxii. pp. 



49, 80, pi. 2 (1871). 



This species is abundant in Central America and the West 

 Indies, and a closely-allied insect occurring in the Argentine 

 Republic and Uruguay was formerly considered to be identical, 

 but has recently been separated under the name of O.platcnsis, 

 Berg. This insect was first brought to the notice of naturalists 

 by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, who visited the West Indies 



