ADSCITA. g-j 



SUJJ-FAMII.Y II. ADSCITIN/K (FORESTERS). 



Thh Sub-family resembles the Anthrocermce in many respects, 

 but the species are more slender, and the antennae are nut 

 thickened 'lofore the tip. If at all, they are thickened through- 

 out, the tip being blunt or pointed, and they are generally more 

 or le:>s pcctn led, slightly in Adsciia, but very strongly in the 

 Australian gc uis Follanisus, Walker. The wings are shorter 

 than in Anthrocera, and are generally very differently coloured, 

 the fore-wings ranging fiom brown to golden-green, and the 

 hind-wings being brown. One or two South African gencm, 

 however, form exceptions, being coloured like Anthrocera, 

 from which they differ in their anteniiai. 



In AdsciUi the antennce of the male are bi-pectinated, and 

 those of the female serrated; the proboscis is well developed. 

 The fore-wings are shorter and broader than in Anfhrocera, and 

 more rounded at the extremity. 



The larvce resemble those of tlie Aiifhroceyiihc, but are shorter 

 and thicker. 



GKNUS ADSCITA. 



Adscila, Retzius, Gen. Spec. Ins. pp. 8, 35 (1783). 



Zy^icna, Sect. C, Schrank, Fauna IJoica, ii. (1) p. 242 (1801). 



PrGcris, Fabricius, Illigcr's Mag. vi. p. 289 (1807); liubncr, 



Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 119(1822; 7wm prcocc). 

 Atychia^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 9 (1808). 

 Chrysaor, Iliibner, Tentamen, p. i (1810?). 

 Ino, Leach, Edinb. Encycl. ix. p. 436 (1815); Stephens, 111. 



Lrit. iCnt. IIau,,t. i. [). 105(1828); Curiis, Ih it. Ent. iv. pi. 



396 (1834). 



The species of this genus arc all very similar, and there arc 

 three s[)ecies in iirilain, with coppery green or bluish green 

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