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INO STATICES. 



The green Forester. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Zygsenidae. 



Type of the Genus, Sphinx Statices Linn. 



Ino Leach, Sam., Curt. — Procris Fab., Lat. — Atychia Och. — Zygsena 

 Panz., Haw. — Sphinx Linn-, Hub. 



Antenna; inserted on the crown of the head, approaching the 

 eyes, rather long and clavate, composed of numerous small joints, 

 bipectinated beneath in the male, excepting 8 or 9 of the apical 

 joints, which are large and produced internally, forming a serrated 

 club (I (5): simple and clavate in the female (1 $). 

 Maxillie slender and spiral, as long as the antennae (3). Palpi 

 small, indistinctly articulated, being slender at the base, with a 

 hairy lobe on the side, the apex large and somewhat globular (3a). 

 Labial Palpi short and small, sparingly clothed with scales, tri- 

 aniculate, basal joint the largest, 2nd half the size, both some- 

 what obovate, 3rd as long as the 2nd but slender, elliptic-conic 

 (4 and 4 a). 

 Males larger than the females. Head short, front clothed with de- 

 pressed scales and hair. Eyes lateral prominent and subglobose. 

 Thorax rather small and smooth. Abdomen rather short, slightly 

 obtuse in the male. Wings somewhat deflexed when at rest, rather 

 long and narrow, semitransparent ; mkr'ior with the discoidal cells 

 closed behind: cilia short and thick. Legs slender. Tibiae j posterior 

 longer than the thighs, with minute scaly spines at the apex (Sf), as 

 well as the intermediate pair. Tarsi long and b-jointed, basal joint 

 the longest. Claws distinct curved and acute. 

 Larvae short thick and slightly pubescent; head small; 6 pectoral, 

 8 abdominal and 2 anal feet. Pupa unknown. 



Statices Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 290. «. 1098. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 781. 1. 

 Semitransparent, fuscous : antennae and legs blackish, the rib of 

 the former glossy-green as well as the thighs : head, thorax, 

 abdomen and superior wings clothed with beautiful green silky 

 scales, sometimes golden, especially the abdomen, which in some 

 inclines to a bright copper colour. 



In tlie Author s and other Cabinets, 



On examining the antennai of the males of /. Statices, it will 

 be seen that they offer a very remarkable character : the joints 



