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of black on both surfaces of the wings, and in the absence of the 

 orange spots in outer marginal band of hind wing. There is also a 

 large patch ot orange in the centre of the cell. 



[The Curator, on behalf of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 

 desires to acknowledge with grateful thanks Mr. Poling's very acceptable 

 gift of specimens of both sexes of this remarkably interesting butterfly — 

 Neophasia Terlootii.] 



CLASSIFICATION OF THE BUTTERFLIES. 



BY A. R. GROTE, HILDESHEIM, GERMANY. 



In the course of my already-published studies, the probabilities as to 

 the homology of the last anal vein of the Papilionides primary have varied. 

 From preparations of the pupal wing of the Hesperiades, it has become clear 

 that the fork to second anal at base is the remains of the third anal vein, 

 which is irregular and more extended in the fore wing of the chrysalis and 

 does not attain the outer margin. It is furcate and connected with the 

 second anal in the pupal stage. On the other hand, the downwardly 

 curved, short, last and free anal vein of the Papilionid primary cannot be 

 homologous with this, as, indeed, I originally contended. This vein 

 reaches the internal margin, and is probably a survival of the fourth anal. 

 This fact points to a different origin for the two groups, which I have 

 finally defined as follows : 



A. Butterflies having a short fourth anal vein on primaries, running 



downwardly free from base of wing to internal margin ; on 

 secondaries only one anal vein Papilionides. 



B. Butterflies having a short third anal vein on primaries, joining 



outwardly the second near base of wing (this fork sometimes 

 wanting by reduction and always thinner than second anal or 

 degenerate), fourth anal wanting, and having more than one anal 



vein on secondaries Hesperiades. 



In order to bring out the probable phylogeny in the classification, I 

 accord superfamily value to the two divisions. The Papilionides include 

 the three families : Parnassiidse, Teinopalpidse and Papilionida^, separable 

 on neurational features, the first two appearing as specializations of the 

 last in the order given. The Hesperiades include not only the Lycsenids, 

 as indicated by Fabricius, but all the rest of the butterflies, of which 

 I regard the Pierids and Blues as the more recent developments, while 

 the Nymphalids and Skippers represent older types. 



