LEPIDOPTERA OF THE FAMILY ZYQJE'SmjE. 399 



Subfamily EUNOMIIN^. 



This subfamily closely resembles the preceding, of which it 

 might almost be considered an aberrant group ; it differs in the 

 following character : — 



Median nervure of secondaries with more than two branches, 

 one of which is always emitted before the end of the discoidal 

 cell. 



Dr. Herrich-Schaifer has united this subfamily with the pre- 

 ceding, with the Charideinse, and with the Syntomiuas, including 

 them all in a synoptic Table ; but his characters are to me per- 

 fectly incomprehensible ; the new genei-a are barely indicated and 

 consequently cannot be recognized. He describes his genus 

 Abrocfiia thus: — "Hind wing without median cell;" he means 

 probably that the discocellulars are wanting, and consequently 

 that the cell is open. One of his genera is simply diagnosed by 

 the word "farbiff;" and considering that there is no moth desti- 

 tute of colour, this seems to me very insufficient. The new spe- 

 cies described in the same paper (Correspondenz-Blatt zooL- 

 min. Ver. Eegensb. 1866) are very difficult to identify, the follow- 

 ing being a sample of the descriptions : — 



Trich^a seticornis. 



" CBcruleo mixta, abdomine a sgm. 2, antennis apice albis, dorso medio 

 nigro-squamatis, tarsis p. apice albis. 506-623." 



If the above diagnosis had been written without abbreviations, 

 it would have been insufficient for the determination of the spe- 

 cies. What is meant by " cseruleo mixta "is to me a mystery. 

 Another error in the above paper is the adoption of well-known 

 generic names in a wrong sense. I will take Eunomia as an ex- 

 ample, inasmuch as even my friend Grote appears to have mis- 

 applied it. It has been used recently for a genus of Euchromiina? 

 {Marissa of Walker); now the correct application of the name 

 will be seen from the following considerations : — 



Hiibner first characterized the genus at p. 125 of his ' Verzeich- 

 niss,' and included the following species: — 



1st, Eunomia columhina, Eabricius ; 2nd, E. auge, Linn., and 

 E. eagrus of Cramer; 3rd, E. andromaclia, Fabr., and E. caunus 

 of Cramer. 



Hiibner, in his ' Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge,' figiu'ed 

 E. auge (n. 2) as Cosmosoma oi/qy/ialc. Wallcer described this 



