26 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
view of the Revision of the group made by Fabricius himself, Anthro- 
cera must sink as a direct synonym to Zygaena. Tutt, Brit. Lep., i., 
p. 388, is not really correct when he says, ‘‘ Scopoli diagnosed the 
Burnet moths proper under the name Anthrocera,” he did nothing more 
than repeat what Fabricius had already done. 
If we refer to the older authors we find that Cuvier, Lamarck, Hub- 
ner (1805), and Curtis, all treat Zygaena as if filipendulae were the 
type. But before Curtis, Boisduval had stepped into the field, and, in 
1829, monographed the group, naming the Burnets Zygaena, and the 
Arctiid (i.e., the Syntomids) Syntomis. He apparently was unaware of 
the Revision made by Fabricius in Jlliyer’s Magazine, in 1807, as he 
does not refer to the genera in that work. 
Boisduval’s monograph would therefore render Kirby’s action 
‘ultra vires,’ but in front of Boisduval was the Revisior of Fabricius, 
dividing his previous genus into four— 
Amata type passalis, this includes Syntomis and that family. 
Zygaena type filipendulae, including the true Burnets. 
Glaucopis for a heterogeneous group, the type of which, however, 
was fixed by Htibner as phegea in the Tentamen. It therefore falls 
before dmata and Syntomis. 
Procris for statices and otber species. In this case, however, 
Retzius, in 1788, proposed Adscita for filipendulae and statices, and itis 
most unfortunate that Kirby, ignoring both Fabricius and Boisduval, 
should have revived a genus that was dead by naming the type as 
statices, instead of allowing it to sink altogether under name Zygaena, 
inasmuch as it was for the same insects. Kirby’s action, however, 
renders the name Adscita, type statices, as valid, and it must be used 
for the Foresters as Tutt has done. Procris, therefore, sinks to it. 
We therefore have standing out from it all— 
Zygaena, type filipendulae. 
Syn. Anthrocera, type filipendulae. 
Amata, type passalis. 
Syn. Syntomis, type phegea. 
Adscita, Retz. type statices. 
Syn. Procris and Ino. 
These names, Zygaena for the Burnets and Amata for the Synto- 
mids, have priority, and ought to be used in future. 
Mr. Durrant has kindly made ont the following tabulated statement 
of the synonymy of this section of the group. 
ZYGAENA F. 
— ANTHROCERA Sep. 
Type: Sphinx filipendulae L. (Cvr. 1798; Lmk. 1801; Hb. 1805; 
Leach 1815 ; Crt. 1835 ;—Scp. 1777; Wstwd. 1840; Kby. 1892). 
ZYGAENA F. Syst. Ent [28], 550-6 no. 141 sp. 1-28 (1775) 
[1. filipendulae L.; 2. phevea L.; 26. statices L.; etc.]. ANTHRO- 
CERA Sep. Intr. Hist. Nat. 414 no. 168 (1777) [* filipendulae L. 
etc.”|. ZYGAENA F. Gn. Ins. 156, 160, 275-7 no 141 (1777): Phil. 
Ent. 91, 110 (1778): Sp. Ins. 2. 157-67 no. 144 sp. 1-58 (1781): 
Mant. Ins. 4. p. xvii no. 150: 2. 101-7 sp. 1-66 (1787): Bint. Syst. 
3 (1). [8], 886-407 no. 190 sp. 1-72 (1793): 4 (Ind. Alph.) 174-5 no. 
190 (1796) ; Cvr. Tbl. Klement. HN. An. 593 (1798) [Type: filipen- 
