INVERTEBKATE ANIMALS. 97 



cies ; preserved larvEe and magnified drawings 

 of eggs. 



Family PAPILIONID.E . 

 Group 221. — Genus PAPILIO and allies. Swallow-tailed 

 Butterflies. For the Linnsean divisions of the Butterflies 

 into Eqidtcs, Daiiai, Pleheii, &c., see the Tablet. 

 upper Compartment. 



Case with specimens of Papilio Vertumnus, pre- 

 sented by H. J. Cauty. A chair is placed 

 near, by the aid of which P. Vertumnus may 

 be seen by looking down upon it from above ; 

 whence the carmine spot on the lower wing 

 appears of a pale amethystine hue. 



Group 222.— Genus ORNITHOPTERA, and allies, opn;, a 

 bird ; -KTspov, a wing. 



These royal insects are found chiefly in the Molucca 

 Islands and in New Guinea. Observe the 

 difference between the male and female in O. 

 Croesus and 0. Aruana ; also the extended 

 palpi in Teinopalpus, a native of the higher 

 ranges of the Himalayas, on the borders of 

 Assam. Estimated number of species, 20. 



Order NEUEOPTERA. vsvpov, a nerve ; Trrepov, a wing. 



Group 223.— NEUROPTERA in part. 



H May-flies, EphemericUe ; Ant-lious, Mijrmehoni- 

 dce ; Lace-wiugs, Golden-eyes, Ilemerohiidce ; 

 two examples of the exquisitely fantastic forms 

 characteristic of the genus Nemoptera, N. Coa 



