106 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



The colour of the anterior wings varies greatly, being occasionally found of a 

 pale yellowisli green, or of a rich blue and slightly tinted with green. 



Caterpillar dusky, with two dorsal Unes of whitish crescents ;— it feeds on the 

 common sorrel (Rumex acetosa). The chrysalis is dusky. 



Not very abundant, but local, in woods and meadows : I have 

 taken it occasionally at Coombe and Darenth woods, near Hertford, 

 Ripley, on Epping'-forest, and at Colney Hatch, about the middle 

 of June; it flies heavily. '•' Abundant in Kensington-gardens.'' — 

 Mr. Waterhouse. " Near Ely." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " In great 

 plenty near York, but very local, and confined to one meadow." — 

 W. C. Hetaitson, Esq. " Near Newcastle." — G. Wailes, Esq. 

 " Common in Littleton-copse, Kimpton." — Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



Genus XXH. — Antiirocera, Scopoli. 



Antenna slender at the base, thickening into an abrupt bent fusiform club, with 

 the apex simple; in the males robust : ^ «//>/ reaching beyond the clypeus, cyhn- 

 dric -conic, acuminated, densely clothed with hair : head, thorax, and abdomen 

 tliickly clothed with short silken hairs, with a few scales intermixed. Larva 

 villose, fusiform, generally spotted with black, on a pale ground; head small: 

 pupa elongate. 



Zygsena having been employed by the ancients to designate a 

 fish *, the Hamrner-headed Shark, that name is, consequently, im- 

 proper to be used for a genus of insects : I have therefore reverted 

 to the one applied by Scopoli, to prevent the inevitable confusion 

 which must arise if different classes of beings are called by similar 

 names. The species of Anthrocera are all extremely beautiful, and 



t Sp. 2. Globularise. Alis anticis cceruleo-viridibus, ■posticis fuscis, antennis om- 



nino pectinatis, apice cuspidatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc 4 Un.) 

 Zy. GlobulariiE. Hiilner. — Ino Globulariae. Steph. Catal. 



The anterior wings of a blue-green, the posterior brown : the antennae pectinated, 

 with the apex simple. 



A variety of the foregoing insect having been considered as the Zy. globulariae 

 of Hiibner, as such I recorded it, but having subsequently examined the spe- 

 cimen, I find that it is referable to Ino Statices, var. /S. Ino Globularise must 

 therefore be removed from the hst ; but I conceive that it is extremely pro- 

 bable for it to occur in England. 



* Dascillus, Liparis, Phycis, Colocasia, Staphylinus, &c., have all been im- 

 properly applied to genera in entomology, and should be discarded. 



