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some of the species published in the former volumes. The 

 work is continued by M. Frederick Treitschke, and the spe- 

 cific descriptions are completed to the hundred-and-sixth genus 

 inclusive ; and M. Treitschke has also given a further sketch of 

 the arrangement, including ten additional genera consisting of 

 the Phalcence Pyralides of Linnaeus, the specific descriptions 

 of which are not yet published*. More therefore still re- 

 mains to be done, and we wait anxiously for the completion of 

 the work. In the mean time we lay the present abstract be- 

 fore the reader ; and should he entertain any doubts of the 

 value of M.M. Ochsenheimer's and Treitschke' s labours, we 

 refer him to the Introduction to Dr. Horsfield's Descriptive 

 Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects contained in the Mu- 

 seum of the East India Company, where he will find such 

 ample testimony to their merit as cannot fail (unless he dis- 

 regard the maxim " laudari a laudato") presently and effec- 

 tually to remove them. 



1st Zfcws^.—PAPILIONES. 



Wings when at rest, erect. 



Antenna filiform, generally capitate, or terminated by a 



knob ; sometimes only slightly incrassate at the end. 

 Flight, diurnal. 

 Larva with sixteen legs; head globular, perfectly distinct 



from the body; motion indolent, and sluggish. 

 Pupa angular. 

 Metamorphosis generally naked, or not concealed by a web. 



Genus 1. MELITiEA, Fab. 



Melit^a, Fab. Syst. Glossat. 



Battus et Graphium, Scopoli. Introductio ad Hist. Nat. 



Nymphalis, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. 



Papilio, Schrank. Faun, boi'c. 



Lemoniades, Hubn. 



Legs, first pair imperfect. 



Wings, roundish; upper surface of the anterior wings, red- 

 dish-yellow with black maculae and dots, or blackish, 

 with reddish-yellow maculae and dots ; under surface of 

 the posterior wings with alternate orange-yellow, and 

 yellowish-white cross bands with black spots; not sil- 

 vered. 



Antennae, knob oval, compressed, obtuse. 



* The hist volume as yet published is the sixth, of which, Parts T. and II. 

 appeared in the present year. 



Larva 



