Mn. JoNzs's new Arrangement of Papihos. o6; 
As fize can be no diftinétion to form a character, each 
family being of various dimenfions, it is neceffary to point 
out à character which others do not partake of, and 
which may eafily be done, having even been noticed by 
Mr. Yeats in his Inftitutions of Entomology, p. 132, yet al- 
together not quite fufficiently—his words are as follows : 
** The family of the Plebeii is very inaccurate, and con- 
“ tains infeéts very different from one another, at the 
& fame time that they refemble, and have all the cha- 
€ ractere-of fome or other of the preceding ones, under 
€ which many of them, I think, might be properly arrang- 
** ed, The remaining Plebeii would compofe a family very 
** diftin& from all the others, and which might be formed 
* into two feétions ; the firft containing {mall butterflies, 
& having longand flexible or weak tails, (lender bodies, and 
* clubbed antenna, as Cupido, Marfyas, Boeticus, &c. 
* the other diftinguifhed by the fhortnefs, thicknefs, or 
€ breadth of their head, thorax and abdomen, and by 
ni Æéthéfhape-of their. upper wings, which in thefe laft are 
“ pointed at their extremity, and long in proportion to 
«€ their width, as the Proteus, Phidias, &c. 
& The antenna in this laft divifion are generally un- 
«€ cinated or crooked at their extremity; fome of them 
* have likewife tails, but thefe are very broad and 
“ ftrong, and are always ciliated, or edged with a fringe 
& of hairs, as in the Proteus, &c." : 
They may therefore be thus divided : 
PLEBEI Rurales Thorax and abdomen flender; under wings 
without a connecting nerve; antennæ clubbed. 
—with long, weak, flexible tails. 
—without tails, wings entire. 
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