LEPIDOPTERA. 193 
The caterpillar is lemon-yellow, slightly pilose, with five 
series of black spots along the body. It spins a straw-coloured, 
glossy, elongated and fusiform cocoon on the stems of plants. 
Its surface is wrinkled or plaited. The perfect Insect appears 
in July(1). 
Syntomis, Illig. 
Only differing from Zygzena in the antennz, which are not so 
thick, and insensibly fusiform and slender. The inferior palpi are 
shorter and obtuse(2). 
Aryouta, Hoff. Mlig. 
Where the antenne are simple (in the females), or bipectinate (ia 
the males), according to the sex; the inferior palpi are densely pi- 
lose and extend considerably beyond the clypeus. - The wings are 
short, and the extremity of the posterior tibie is furnished with 
very strong spines(3). The ! 
Procris, Fab. 
Approaches Atychia in the antennz; but the inferior palpi are 
shorter and not hairy. The wings are long, and the spurs of the 
posterior tibiz are small. 
P. statices; Sphinx statices, L.3 P. turquoise, De Geer, Insect., 
II, p. 255, iil, 8S—10. Body glossy green, as if gilt; inferior 
wings brown; antennz of the male with two series of black 
setz, those of the females somewhat serrated. 
In the other Lepidoptera of this division, the antennz of both 
sexes are bipectinated or furnished with a double row of elongated 
(1) Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., IV, 211; See also the Hist. Nat. des Lépid. de 
France. 
(2) See the same works. : 
Near the Syntomides comes the genus Pstcotnog, established by M. Bois-Duval, 
“Sin his Europ. Lepid. Index Method., and, according to him, distinct from all 
other Zygenides in its moniliform antennz and immaculate wings. It comprises 
but a single species, P. Duvancelii, found in Bengal by M. Diard and the late 
M. Duvauncel. 
(3) Lat., Ibid., IV, 214.¢ 
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