118 Journal New York Ent. Soc. [Vol. ii. 



Family BOMBYCID.l-:. 

 Genus Bombyx Li/i/nci/s. 

 i-j^8—Bc>wl>vx Lli\N.i:us, Syst. Nat., Vol, I, p. 499. 



B. mori Liniucus. 



1-,^%— Bombyx mori LiNN.-EUS, Syst. Nat., Vol- 1, p. 499, n. 18; 1891— Smith, 



List. Lep., No, 1413. 

 Entirely white, with very faint brown t. a., median and t. p. 

 bands and discal dot. This is the well known "silk-worm" moth, 

 and is cultivated in various parts of this country. 



Family PSYCHID^:.* 

 Synopsis of genera. 



V^ein lb of primaries sending a branch to internal margin. 

 Wings elongate, narrow. 



Hind wings triangular, apex acuminate . . . Oiketicus. 



Hind wings rounded, apex obtuse . . . , Thyridopteryx. 



Wings broader ; size small Psyche. 



Vein 6 present on fore'wing, absent on hind wing, group Platoeceticus. 



Vein 6 absent on both wings . , , . group Eurycyttarus. 



Vein lb free from inner margin, without a branch . . , . Chalia. 



Genus Oiketicus Guilding. 

 1837 — Oiketicus GuiLDiNG, Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud., Vol. XV, p. 375. 



O. abbotii Grotc. 



1880— Gkotr, N. Am. Ent., Vol. I, p. 52. 



c? Sable brown with a vitreous bar at the extremity of the cell 

 of the primaries. The narrow external edging of the wings is 

 pale. A blackish streak at base on vein i, and a broad shade from 

 cell outward to external margin. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Habitat^ Morida. 



Genus Thyridopteryx Stephens. 



1834— r///;-/Vt'//^r;'x Stki'hkns, 111. Brit. Knt. Haust., Vol. IV. p. 387. 

 1865 — Ilymenopsyche Gkqtk, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. V, p. 248. 



Synopsis of species. 



Veins of wings brown , . ephemeraeformis. 



Veins of wings pale orange ........ meadii. 



T. ephemerseformis HawortJi. 



1S03 — sphinx tp/u-merir/oniiis ILvwoRTH, Lep. Brit., p. 72. 



1864 — Eceticus coniferarum Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. III. p.35i. 



* The wingless females of all the species in this family are not very charact- 

 eristic, and descriptions of them are omitted. 



