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The 2nd Stirps, Archontes, thus: "The palpi entirely hairy; the 

 antennae clubbed, bent ; the wings large • the fore legs much like the 

 others, but spineless and the abdomen free." Comprises the Papilios and 

 Parnassians. 



The 3rd Stirps, Andropoda, thus : " All the members pretty badly 

 shaped (ziemlich schlechtformig),the wings pale colored and black." Part 

 of the Pieridae. 



The 4th Stirps, Hypati, thus : " Palpi large, directed forward, the 

 antennae club-shaped, the wings angled and jagged." The Libytheidae. 



The 5th Stirps, Telchinae, includes heterocerous moths, and I omit it. 



The 6th Stirps, Astyci, thus : " The forehead broad, the palpi thickly 

 haired ; short-snouted ; the antennae beset with a little lock on their 

 knoblets, hooked at the end ; the wings pretty broad, moderately large.'' 

 The Hesperidae.* 



Now it strikes me that nothing more is needed than to give these 

 definitions in full to show that they are almost if not wholly worthless. 

 If in the istand 2nd Stirps of the ?iympJiahs, and the 2nd and 6th of the 

 ge/iti/cs, there is a somewhat full definition, embracing the antennae, palpi, 

 legs and shape of the wings, in the remainder there is a singular indefin- 

 iteness and hesitancy. In some the wings are not mentioned at all 

 (Napaese, Agrodiaeti), in others the members are not (Hamadryades, 

 Lemoniades), in others still the antennae alone are coupled with the 



* Note. — The language used by Hubner throughout this volume is uncouth and 

 that of an unlettered man, a condition not at all incompatible with skill in delineating 

 and coloring. Consequently, while his plates are models of excellence, his text is 

 boorish. To him, fore wings are pinions, schwingen ; hind wings sinkers, senken ; 

 the fore legs arms, aerme ; the antenna' ears, ohren ; the proboscis a two snouted 

 nose, zweischnaubigen nase, &c. One of the coitus of the Astyci is thus character- 

 ized : "The wings spotted with white like a sausage,'' which is Hubnerian for 

 mottled. Dr. Hagen, to whom I applied for light respecting certain words, writes 

 thus: " Hubner was illiterate. His language cannot be called in any sense plain 

 German. He invented a number of words for things and parts for vhich words 

 existed long ago in German, and were used and adopted fifty or even a hundred years 

 before Hubner. Apparently he had no knowledge of these words or of the works 

 in which they were used. The consequence is that neither science nor even any 

 popular writer has adopted Hubner 's words. They are known to nobody, and for 

 some of them the sense can only be guessed. You will find them in no German 

 dictionary. They are simply self-made barbarisms. '' Geyer, Thon's Archiv., 1827, 

 in his notice of Hubner and his works, calls his language " illiterate (schwunglose 

 sprache), greatly marred by self-made words." 



