II. 



FAM 1 L V I A CAEN IDAE. 



OOSSAMER-WINGBD BUTTERFLIES. 



Uur»lf!< Kabr. ; Uiiricolos Walik.; Kurnlia Eryciiiicns Bliimli.-Briilli!; Eryeiiiii Liio.; 



Clniv. Ervfiniilap Swains. 



Pli-bcii riiralos Linn. Onisiifornios N'lwni. 



Lycacniilap Kennie. 



TnnOis qu'un papillon, Ics deux niles en fleur, 



Teinl<! il'azur ut ilVcarlatf, 

 Se pusait par iii.staiits .•*»!■ ta peau d6licate 

 Kn y laii-sant <le sa ooiili'ur. 



Lkcontk I)k LisLK.—Le Manchy. 

 Your niifltrcssi's dare never come in rain, 

 For fear their eoioiir.-i sbould be \va.sli'd away. 

 SHAKE.>iPKAKE.— ioi'e'if Luhour's Lost. 



Imago. Uf small size. Henil rather small; front always hlf;her than broad, 

 nsually half a.s hiifh a^ain as broad; vertex separated, sometimes partly, sometimes 

 wliolly, from occiput by a transverse sulcation; eyes neither prominent nor projecting 

 beyond the general contour of the head. Tongue inserted below the middle of the 

 lower half of the eye; papillae of tongue very long and slender, polyhedral, equal, 

 the angles terminating at tlie truncate or hollowed tip in acicular points, the central 

 process exceedingly slender, blunt tipped ; they are attached close to the outer edge 

 of the tongue, conllncd to the apical tenth or thereal)outs and arc always separated 

 from each other by at least half their own length. .Vntcnnae inserted in distinct pits, 

 so far at the side as to infringe upon the eyes, the middle in direct continuation with 

 the sides of the front; the club straight. Labial palpi very slender, cylindrical, of 

 nearly uniform diameter. 



Prothoracic lobes reihiced to a mere lamina. Thorax moderately slender, not much 

 compressed, the upper surface moderately arched, sometimes a little less so above; 

 mesoscutellum pretty large. lozenge-shai)cd, forming about a right angle between the 

 halves of the mesoscutuin into which it docs not greatly |irojcct, the suture between 

 the two slight, the two pieces together forming posteriorly a reversed l)lunt cone; 

 metathorax only sli^litly separated from tlio nicsothorax. Wings almost always broad 

 anil sliort, the fore wings almost invariably simple, the hind wings fretiuently with 

 thread-like tails. Fore wings : costal nervure terminating at from a little less than half 

 to about two-thirds the distance from the base to the apex of the costal margin; sub- 

 costal ncr^'ore with two or three superior and one inferior branches ; all simpleexcept- 

 Inj; the last superior which is frequently forked ; at least one of tlie superior branches 

 Is emitteil before the tip of the cell, an<l tlie third, when present, beyond; the inferior 

 nervulc united to the nervnre by a very slender vein; the nervure itself terminates 

 below the apex of the wing; cell closed by a slen<ler vein sometimes almost obsolete; 

 median nen-nrc with three branches, itself not rcachiu!; the bonier; internal nervure 

 short, nmning into the submedian nervure dose Ut the l>a>-e. Illml wIul's: costal 



