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Rh the genus is allied to Campylotes of Westwood, described in Professor Royle's work on the Natural History of the Himalaya mountains. It is allied also to Gymnautocera of Guerin, and to Heleona and Anthomyza of the same author. It is doubtful if the insects composing this family are more allied to the Zygenidæ than the Lithosiadæ: they appear to have been greatly neglected, and it is the more remarkable, as they are certainly some of the most beautiful of the Lepidoptera."

ERASMIA PULCHELLA. PLATE III. Fig. 2. Hope, Linnean Trans., vol. xviii. pl. 31, fig. 5. The antennæ of this genus (the name of which is derived from, amabilis) are bipectinated, the pectinations of moderate length; anterior wings