LEPIDOPTERA. — ANTHROCERIDZ. 371 
kind as to show me the cocoon, and to inform me that the chrysalis is 
loose. This chrysalis is of the conical form. The flight of Urania 
Fernandinz is diurnal, and exceedingly swift, somewhat like that of 
Apatura Iris, sporting about the topmost branches of forest trees; and 
when it alights, its four wings are expanded horizontally, as repre- 
sented by Mr. Swainson (Zool. Jil., n. ser., pl. 129.). 
Agarista consists of New Holland insects, having much more the 
appearance of moths, but with filiform antenne slightly thickened in 
the middle and terminated in a point. The transformations of A. 
Glycine have been figured by Lewin in his work on the Lepidoptera 
of that country (copied by Guérin, Icon. pl. 83., and Griffith’s An. K. 
Ins. pl. 53.); its larva having considerable resemblance to that 
of Pygera bucephala with slender hairs ; its cocoon is elongated, at- 
tached to the twigs of the tree, somewhat like that of Anthrocera 
filipendule, but sufficiently open to allow the chrysalis to be seen 
through the meshes. 
The transformations of Castnia and Coronis have not been observed ; 
the former of these genera, according to Mr. Swainson (Zool. Til. 
vol. iii. p. 149.), sits when at rest with its wings deflexed. 
The third family * ANTHRocERID#+ (Zygeenides Latr.) comprises 
a rather numerous group of species of small or moderate size, dis- 
tinguished by their brilliancy of colour and diurnal flight (fig. 103. 3. 
Anthrocera filipendule, fig. 103. 12. Ino Statices ¢ ), having the an- 
tenne never terminated by a pencil of hairs, and either simple in both 
sexes and fusiform, or thickened near the middle, nearly setaceous, 
and pectinated in the males (fig. 103. 4. tip of antenna of Anth. 

* Biptiocr. Rerer. TO THE ANTHROCERIDA. 
Boisduval. Essai dune Monogr. des Zygienides, 8vo. Paris, 1829.— Ditto, Hist. 
Nat. Lepidopt., pl. 14, 15, 16. 
Fristhamel. Descript. de la Chimera funebris, in Ann, Soc. Ent. France, 1832. 
Villiers. Notice sur ’Accouplement de deux Zygénes d’espéces différentes, in 
Ditto. 
+ The name Zygena having been preoccupied in Ichthyology, has been rejected by 
Mr. Stephens in favour of Scopoli’s name Anthrocera ; Mr. Stephens has never- 
theless retained the family name Zygenidx, which must evidently be thrown down, 
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