240 MODERN SYSTEM. 



Genus 319. LTMENITIS. Fair., Leach. Nvmphalis. Litr. 



Antenna gradually clubbed; club slender, round obconic: palpi as long 

 as the head, with the second joint not very much compressed ; the 

 anterior margin not remarkably broader: unleriur pair of feet in 

 both sexes very short and spurious ; wings not inucii longer than 

 broad : Four hinder feet with double nails. 



Ijarvu elongate. 



Chrysalis suspended by the tail. 



Sp. 1. Lim. Camilla (white admirable). 



Inhabits Europe. This is considered a rare insect in Britain, l)ut I 

 have observed them in certain years in Bedstile-wood near Finch- 

 ley, and Birch-wood in Kent, in tolerable abundance. 



• Genus 320. IIIPPARCHIA. Fabr., Leach. Maniola. Schrank. 

 SviTYKT s. Latr. Papii.io. Linn., Haworth. 



Antenna: with a slender somewhat fuciform, or trigonate-orhicular 

 club : palpi meeting above the tongue, with the second joint very 

 much compressed, and much longer than the first : anterior pair of 

 legs shorter than the rest, and often very hairy ; feet of the other 

 legs with double nails : hinder wings somewhat orbicular or orbicu- 

 late-triangulate, with the external margin excavated to receive the 

 abdomen; the middle cell closed beliind, from which part the ner- 

 vures radiate ; the other margin entire, or with acute or obtuse in- 

 dentations. 



Caterpillar downy, with a globular head somewhat compressed in 

 front; the abdomen bimucronate behind. 



Cliri/salis angulated, with the front himucromate suspended by the 

 tail. Leach's Zool. Misc. vol. i. p. 17 . 



Sp. 1. Hipp. Galathea (marbled). 



Inhabits woods and fields. 



Sp. 2. Hipp. Hj/peranthiis (the ringlet). 

 Inhabits woods and fields. 



Sp. 3. Hipp. Pamphilus (small heath). 

 Inhabits heaths. 



•Sp. 4. Hipp, blandina (Scotch Argus). 

 Inhabits the isles of Bute and Arran. 



Sp. 5. Hipp. Pilosella (small meadow brown). 

 Inhabits fields and the borders of woods. 



Sp. 6. Hipp. Janira (meadow brown). 

 I'apilio Jurtina. Haworth, Linn. 

 Inhabits fields and lanes. 



Sp. 7. ifi/)/j. Aft'grfTrt (gate-keeper). 

 Inhabits fields and llie borders of woods. 



