64 lisni:an systlm. 



scribed and figured by Savigiiy in his Manoircs sur ks AnhnuuT sum 

 Vertchrca, Paris, 1816.), with palpi, a spiral tongue; the body covered 

 with hair. The scales resemble feathers : they lie over one another in 

 an iniltricated manner, the shaft towards the body of the insect anil the 

 expansion towards the end of the wing, reflecting the most brilliant co- 

 lours. . 



Genus 51. Papilio. 



Antenna: clavate, gradually thickening towards their extremity: icings 

 when at rest erect and meeting upwards. All the insects of this ge- 

 nus ily in the day-time. 



Linne in a peculiar and instructive manner divided this beautiful 

 and numerous tribe into sections, instituted from the habit or general 

 appearance, and in some degree from the distribution of the colour of 

 the wings. 

 Sp. 1. Pap. Machaon. 



This is an insect of great beauty, and may be considered as the only 

 British species of Papliio. It is well known to collectors by the title of 

 the Swallow-tiiiled butterfly, and is of a beautiful yellow, with black 

 spots or patches along the upper edge of the superior wings; all the 

 wings are bordered with a deep edging of black, decorated by a double 

 row of crescent-shaped spots, of which the upper row is blue and the 

 lower yellow. The under wings are tailed, and are marked at the in- 

 ner angle or tip with a round red spot bordered with blue and black. 

 The larva of this species feeds on fennel and other umbelliferous 

 plants. It is of a green coloin- encircled with numerous black bands 

 spotted with red, and is furnished on the top of the head with a pair of 

 short tentacula of a red colour. In the month of July it changes into 

 the chrysalis or pupa state, fixed to some part of the plant on which it 

 feeds, and in the month of August the perfect insect appears. It fre- 

 quently happens that two broods of this butterfly are produced in the 

 same summer; one in May, having been in the pupa state all the winter, 

 the other in August from the pupa of July. {PL 6-fg. !•) 



Genus 52. SiniiNX. 



Jlntennte attenuated at each end : tongue in most species stretched out 



palpi two: t/JiH^'s deflected. 

 . Some of the species of this genus are the largest of Icpidopterous in- 

 sects. They fly very swift, for the most part early in the morning and 

 late in the evening, some of the smaller species during the day. 

 Sp. 1. Sphinx Eipenor, ElcphantHawk. (Pl.G.Jig.'Z.) 



Genus 53. Phal-ena. 



Antenna setaceous, and gradually tapering from the base to the tip ; 

 tongue spiral : the xcingi when at rest are generally deflected. 



