9 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY, 



fore-wings, and brown hind-wings ; they may be distinguished 

 by their differently formed antennae. They are all very local 

 in this country. They appear in June, and fly by day. Th 

 Green Forester (A. statices, Linn.), the type of the genus, 

 is a meadow insect, and was formerly generally distributed, 

 having been taken in Kensington Gardens almost within the 

 memory of persons now living. The other two species are 

 found in restricted localities in the South of England, chiefly 

 on the chalk, and are found flying together near Brighton and 

 Lewes, and also in Gloucestershire. Isolated species of the 

 genus are met with in most parts of the world, but they are 

 most numerous in Europe and the Mediterranean Region. 

 One species, A. ampelophaga (Boyle), is very destructive to the 

 vine; another, common in most parts of Europe, feeds on 

 heath, though it has been improperly named A.prum(Dzn. 

 & SchirT.), and has greenish-brown fore-wings. Some of the 

 arvae mine the leaves of their food-plants when young. The 

 pupae are enclosed in an oval cocoon. 



THE GREEN FORESTER. ADSCITA STATICES. 



(Plate LX XX. Fig 6.) 



Sphinx statices, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 495, no. 38 

 (1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 290 (1761); Esper, Schmett. 

 ii. p. 158, taf. 1 8, figs. 20, b (1780) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. 

 ii. figs, i, 144 (1797). 



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

 Ino statues, Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 105 (1828); 

 Curtis, British Ent. ix. pi. 396 (1834) ; Kirby, Eur. Butter- 

 flies & Moths, p. 87, pi. 21, fig. 3 (1879). 

 Procris statices, Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. ii. p. 87, pi. 18, 

 fig. i (1887); Barrett, Lepid. of Brit. Isl. ii. p. 112, pi. 

 58, figs. 2, 20, (1894). 

 Bluish-green with dark grey hind-wings. It is distinguished 



