THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 143 



THE LINNEAN SICxNIFICATION OF THE GENERIC 



TERM PAPILIO. 



BY SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



Perhaps no part of my " Systematic Revision of Some of the American 

 Butterflies '' has been more severely criticized than the restoration of the 

 Linnean name PapiHo to one of the nymphahdeous butterflies, Antiopa. 

 The principal objection made to this change, besides the fact that it runs 

 -counter to the current of modern usage, being that it violates the idea of 

 the genus as it lay in the mind of its founder. The attention of those 

 interested is called to the following historical facts, not given in the 

 Revision. 



The name Papilio was established by Linnd in the first edition of his 

 Systema Naturae, in 1735''", where the following division occurs : 



ANGIOPTERA. 



A/ae onmibiis datce, elytris destltufcE. 



Papilio. Rostrum spirale, alae 4. Papilio alis erectis. 



Psyche alis planis. 

 Phalaena alis compressis. 



Here the typical Papiliones are the butterflies in general. The 

 succeeding genera of Angioptera are Libellula, Ephemera^ Hanerobius, 

 J^anorpa^ Rap/iidia, Apis, Ichneiunon and Musca. 



In the second edition of the same work (1740) we find the following 

 on p. 60 : 

 153. Papilio. Cauda si??iplex, alae iv. Rostrum spirale sen nullum. 



Pap. antennis clavatis, pedibus 4. 



" 6, alis erectis angulatis. 



" 6, " rotundatis. 



" 6, alis patentibus. 



" 6, alis reflexis. 

 Pap. ore spirale, antennis subulatis. 



barbatis. 

 " nullo, " subulatis. 



barbatis. 



I have only been able to consult Fee's reprint, Paris, 1S30, p. 76. 



