OOO BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



(1836) ; Dup., " Lep. France," auppl., ii., p. 92 (1835) ; " Cat. Meth.," p. 53 (1844) ; 

 H.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," ii., p. 26 (1845) ; Sta.,» Man.," i.,p. 78 (1857) ; llamb., " Cat. 

 Lep. And.," p. 182 (1866) ; Newm., " Brit. Moths," p. 22 (? 1869) ; Druce, " Biol. Cent. 

 Amer. Lep.," i., p. 37 (1884) ; Meyr., " Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales?," p. 792 

 (1886) ; " Handbook, etc.," p. 449 (1895) ; Buckler, " Larvce," etc., ii., p. 87 (1887) ; 

 Auriv., " Nord. Fjiir.," p. 51 (1888). Atychia, Oehs. and Treits., " Schmett. Eur.," 

 ii., p. 9 (1809) ; x., p. 100 (1834) ; Freyer, " Neuere Beitr.," i., p. 27, etc. (1833) ; 

 Zell , " Isis," 1839, p. 274 ; Evers., "Faun. Lep. Volg.-Ural.," p. 91 (1844) ; Nick., 

 " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," vi., p. 93 (1845) ; Assmann, " Abbild. und Besch. der Schmett. 

 Schles.,"ii., p. 5 (1845). Ino, Leach, " Edin. Enc," ix., p. 436 (1815); Stephs., 

 "Illus.," i., p. 105 (18281 ; Curt., "Brit. Ent.," ix., pi. 396 (1832) ; Wood, "Ind. 

 Ent.," p. 11 (1839) ; Led., " Ver. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien," ii., p. 102 (1852) ; Speyer, 

 •' Geog. Verb. Schmett ," i., p. 466 (1858) ; Hein., " Die Schmett. Deutsch.," p. 152 

 (185!t) ; Staud., " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," xxiii., pp. 344 et seq. (1862) ; Wallgrn., 

 " Scand. Het. -Fjiir.," pp 88, 108 (1863) ; Newm., " Zool.," p. 8403 (1863) ; Dbldy., 

 " Ibid.," p. 8532 ; Sta. and Staud., " Ent. Ann.," p. 95 (1864) ; Snell., " De Winders," 

 etc., n. 124 (1867); Nolck., "Lep. Fn. Estl.," i., p. 97 (1868); Staud. andWocke, 

 " Cat.," p. 44 (1871) ; Mill., " Cat. Lep. Alp.-Mar.," p. 124 (1872) ; Curo, " Bull. 

 Soc. Ent. Ital.," vii., p. 192 (1875) ; Sand, " Cat. Lep. Auv.," p. 21 (1879) ; Peyer., 

 " Cat. Lep. Als.," p. 46 (1880) ; Frey, " Lep. der Schweiz," p. 63 (1880) ; TTofmn., 

 "Die Gross-Schmett.," etc., p. 32 (1887); "Die Raupen," etc., p. 34 (1893): 

 Tutt, "Brit. Moths," p 350 (1896). Aqlaope, Dalm., " Vet. Akad. Handl.," 1816, 

 p. 211 ; Zett., " Ins. Lapp.," p. 920 (1840). 



Until quite recently the whole of the Palaearctic Foresters have 

 been known under one or other of the synonymic generic titles, Procris, 

 Fab., or Ino, Leach. Kirby, however, in 1892, resurrected the older 

 name, Adscita, Eetzius, for the whole of the Palaearctic (and some 

 exotic) species. The diagnosis of Eetzius reads as follows : — 



Adscita. — Papillon Phalene. Ant. clavatee. Als subdenexse, invicem incum- 

 bentes (Gen. et Sp. Ins., p. 8). 



Retzius cites (Ibid., p. 35) Adscita aries (A. filipendulae) and A. 

 turcosa (A. statices) in this genus. As filipendulae is the type of 

 Scopoli's Anthrocera, it leaves statices as the type of Adscita. Although 

 Retzius was the first to use Adscita in a generic sense, earlier authors 

 (including Linne and Esper) had called the Adscitids and Anthrocerids 

 the Sj>hiw/es-Adscitae, which is, in reality, the oldest group name of 

 the superfamily. 



The distinctive characters of the genus as apart from Anthrocera 

 are : — 



Ovum. — Surface of shell more distinctly covered with a fine polygonal reticu- 

 lation. 



Laeva. — The hairs on tubercles i, ii with a bulbous swelling near base in 1st 

 stage (? in later stages) . 



Pupa. — Flattened ventrally. 



Imago. — Antennas pectinated, forming a pseudo-club at apex. 



With the exception of certain species from South Africa (com- 

 prising the genera — Om<<, Kirby, Crameria, Hb.), North America, 

 (Tantura, Kirby), Central America (Pseiuloprocris, Druce), South 

 America (Anatolis, Feld.), India (Debos, Swinhoe), and Australia 

 (Hestiochora, Meyr.), all the remaining Adscitids are included in the 

 genus Adscita, Retz., by Kirby (Cat. Lep. Het., pp. 81-86). He has, 

 however, not adopted the genus Iihaijades, Wallgrn. Nevertheless, 

 it seems probable that, when some special study of the group has been 

 made, and some reliable characters found apart from wing colour and 

 shape, and when the life-histories of more species are completely known, 

 the genus Adscita, Kirby, will be found to be composed of many hetero- 

 geneous elements. The genus, as it stands, comprises species from 

 almost all parts of the globe, and Kirby states that the species of one 



