LEPIDOPTERA. — EGERIID®. 373 
Syntomis Phegea is much more hairy, resembling the caterpillars of 
some of the Arctiidz, the hairs arising in bundles. (Guérin, Icon. 
RR. An. pl. 84.b.; and Griff., An. K. Ins. pl. 120.) M. De Villiers 
has published an account of the circumstances connected with the 
coupling of two distinct species of the genus Anthrocera, whence 
some of the supposed species of this genus are considered to be 
hybrids. (Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, tom. i.) In their diurnal 
flight and fenestrated wings, these insects appear to approach the 
fEgerie ; but the relation between them appears to be but remote, 
as does also their supposed affinity to the Pyralide, the various cha- 
racters between the latter seeming to indicate no higher relation than 
one of analogy; for nothing can be more dissimilar than the slow, 
heavy flight of Zygzna and the active movements of the Pyralide. 
Some of the exotic species of this family are exceedingly beautiful 
in their colours; and those of the genera Glaucopis and Aglaope 
have the antenne strongly bipectinated in both sexes.  Latreille 
considers them as probably allied to Callimorpha amongst the noc- 
turnal Lepidoptera. 

The fourth family /Ecrritpm*, or the Sesiades of Latreille, con- 
sists of a moderate number of very interesting insects, remarkable 
for their great resemblance to various Hymenoptera and Diptera, 
owing to the elongate form of the body, and the nakedness of the 
wings, which are more or less transparent in many of the species 
(fig. 104. 3. Trochilium bembeciforme g; 104. 6. AEgeria tipuli- 
formis ¢). The antennz are simple, fusiform, or thickened towards 
the tips, and generally terminated by a small pencil of hairs (jig. 
104. 9. tip of antenna of /Zg. tipuliformis ; 104. 5. ditto of Troch. bem- 
beciforme g ). The ocelli are distinct, and the labial palpi elevated, 
* Breriocr. REFER. TO THE AUGERIIDA. 
Laspeyres. Sesize Europe Iconibus, &c. Berol. 1801. 4to. 
Newman. Sphinx Vespiformis, an Essay. London. — Ditto, in Entomol. Mag., 
No. 1. 
Worth, upon an Insect very destructive to Peach Trees, A°geria exitiosa Say, in 
Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelph. Decemb. 1823, and Ferussac Bull. Jan. 
1825. 
Stephens. Hubner. Enaramelle, Godart, Wood, &c. 
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