PAPILIO. BUTTERFLY. 
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Genei'ic Character. 
thickening towards 
the extremity, commonly 
terminating in a knob or 
clavated tip. 
Wings (when sitting) erect 
and meeting upwards : 
(flight diurnal.) r n 
I ' , " 
rr HE prodigious number of species in this genus 
makes it absolutely necessary to divide the whole 
into sections or sets, instituted from the habit^ or 
general appearance, and, in some degree, from the 
distribution of the colour on the wings. This di- 
vision of the genus is conducted by Linnaeus in a 
peculiarly elegant and instructive manner, being 
an attempt to combine, in some degree, natural 
and civil history, by attaching the memory of 
some illustrious ancient name to an insect of such 
or such a particular cast. 
The first Linnaean division consists of the Equi~ 
tes, distinguished by the shape of their upper 
wings, which are longer, if measured from their 
hinder angle to their anterior extremity, than 
Antennce apicem versus 
crassiores, stepiusclavato- 
capitatce. 
Al(e (sedentis) erectoe sui- 
sumque connivcntes, (vo- 
latu diurno.) 
