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Zygcenides Latreille (part), Gen. Crust. Ins., iv, p. 211, 1809. 



Not Zy gee n a Cuvier, Reg. Anim., n, 1817. (Fishes.) 



Zygcenidce Leach, Edinb. Encycl., ix, p. 131, 1819. 



Zygcenides Boisduval, Icones., n, p. 34, 1834. 



Not Zygcenince Swainson, Classif., 1839. (Fishes.) 



Zygcenoidea. Gravenhorst, Vergl. Zool., p. 168, 1843. 



Zygcenides Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., i, p. 62, 1854. 



Anthroceridce Westwood & Humphrey, Brit. Moths, i, p. 27, 1857. 



Glaucopites Newman, Ent. Mo. Mag., i, p. 384, 1864. 



Zygcenidce Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Eur. Faun., i. p. 44, 1871. 



Zygcenidce Stretch, Zyg. Bomb. No. Am., i, p. 33, 1872. 



Glaucopes Grote, New Ch. List No. Am. Moths, p. 14, 1882. 



Pyromorphidce Smith, List Lep. Bor. Am., p. 22, 1891. 



Anthrocerince Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het, i, p. 62, 1892. 



Not Zygcenince Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het., i, p. 89, 1892. (Syntomidze.) 



Zygcenidce Hampson, Moths of India, i, p. 228, 1892. 



Pyi omorphidce Neumoegen & Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., n, p. 63, 



1894; 



Pyromorphidce Comstock, Man. Stud. Ins., p. 226, 1895. 

 Zygcenidce Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. Brit. Mus., i, p. 20, 1898. 

 Anthroceridce Tutt, Brit. Lep., i, p. 385, 1899. 



SYNOPSIS OF NORTH AMERICA GENERA. 



1. Vein 6 of the hind wings absent 2 



Vein 6 of the hind wing present 5 



2. Vein 8 joined to the cell by an oblique bar at the end 3 



Vein 8 joining the cell at the outer two-thirds Acoloithus 



3. Abdomen of (J with lateral and terminal tufts 4 



Abdomen without tufts Triprocris 



4. Anal area of hind wings much reduced Sctiodes 



Anal area of hind wings not reduced Harrisina 



5. Vein 8 joined to cell by an oblique bar at end 6 



Vein 8 joined to cell at outer two-thirds Adscita 



6. Wings broadly rounded Pyromorpha 



Wings trigonate, normal Ginglct 



Genus ACOLOITHUS Clemens. 

 SYNOPSIS OF SPECIES. 



Collar discolorous, red or orange .falsarius 



Collar concolorous, black rectarius 



Acoloithus falsarius Clemens. 



A common species .in the southern Atlantic coast region, the 

 larva sometimes injurious to the grape. The larvae are solitary, 

 whitish, with dull purple longitudinal side bands and cross bands 

 near each extremity. 



