122 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



education, while their inborn love of Natural History has led them to the 

 study of this order of insects," we have published this accentuated list ot 

 Canadian Lepidoptera. 



RULES FOR PRONUNCIATION. 

 Every vowel is to be pronounced short unless marked long, thus e. 



TABLE OF VOWEL SOUNDS. 

 a is to be pronounced as in the word 

 e " " 



i « " 



o " " 



u " " 



Two vowels occurring together, and not joined as in the diphthongs, are to be pro- 

 nounced as two syllables ; thus, Regiella pron. Re-gi-el-la, not Re-giel-la. 



TABLE OF CONSONANT SOUNDS. 

 c is to be pronounced hard, as k. 

 c " " soft, as s. 



eh " " hard, as k, except where preceded by s, in which 



case the " sch " is equivalent to sh, and is printed sgh : thus, Frischella, pron. as 



Frishella. 



g is to be pronounced hard, as in " gate." 



g " " soft, " "gem." 



The position of the accent (') shows where stress is to be laid : viz , on the syllable 

 preceding the accent. 



LEPIDOPTERA — Lepidoptera. Gr. Lepis a scale, pteron a wing. Insects whose 

 wings are clothed with scales. 



DIURNI— Diur'ni. Day-fliers. 



RHOPALOCERA — Rhopaloc f era. Gr. Rhopalon a club, keras a horn. Insects 

 whose antennge are clubbed at the extremity. All butterflies have this peculiarity. 



PAPILIONIDJE — Papilid'nidae. — the family of which the genus Papilio is the type. 



PAPILIO — Papilio, a butterfly. Linnaeus first attempted to combine in some 

 degree Natural and Civil History, by attaching the names of personages illustri- 

 ous in their day to insects of particular kinds. His first division of the Butter- 

 flies consists of Equites (Knights), and these are sub-divided into Trots and Achlvi 

 (Trojans and Greeks). 



TURN US — Tur'nus. A prince of the Rutuli, who contended with iEneas for the 

 princess Lavinia. 



TROILUS — Tro'ilus. A son of Priam and Hecuba killed by Achilles. 



PHILENOR — PhiWnor. A Grecian proper name. 



ASTERIAS — Aste'rias. Daughter of Cseus and Phoebe, and sister of Latona. 



THOAS — Tho'as. King of Chersonesus to whom Iphigenla was brought. 



AJAX — Ajax. A Grecian hero, son of Telamon. 



PIERIDJE— Pieridm. The family of which the genus Pieris is the type. 



PIERIS — Pi'eris, a Muse. The Muses derived their name Pierides from Mount 

 Pierus, where they were worshipped. 



PROTODICE— Prdto f dice. Gr. " Protos " first, "Dice" the name of one of the 

 hours — in allusion probably to this insect being one of the earliest to appear in 

 Spring. 



