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SUB-FAMILY II. ADSCITIN/E (FORESTERS). 



This Sub-family resembles the Anthrocerincz in many respects, 

 but the species are more slender, and the antennae are not 

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

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

 or less pectinated, slightly in Adscita, but very strongly in the 

 Australian genus Pollanisus, Walker. The wings are shorter 

 than in Anthroara, and are generally very differently coloured, 

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

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

 however, form exceptions, being coloured like Anthrocera, 

 from which they differ in their antennae. 



In Adscita the antennae 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 Anthrocera, and 

 more rounded at the extremity. 



The larvae resemble those of the Anthrocerin<z, but are shorter 

 and thicker. 



GENUS ADSCITA. 



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



Zygana, Sect. C, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii. (i) p. 242 (1801). 



Preens^ Fabricius, Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 289 (1807); Hiibner, 



Veiz. bek. Schmett. p. 119(1822; nom preocc.}. 

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

 Chrysaor^ Hiibner, Tentamen, p. i (1810?). 

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



Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 105 (1828) ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. iv. pi. 



396 (1834). 



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

 three species in Britain, with coppery-green or bluish-green 



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