LIMENITIS. 



Papilio, Lin. — Nymphalis, Latr. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae gradually clubbed; club slender, 

 hardly compressed, elongate-obconic ; palpi not 

 elongated, second joint not much compressed, the 

 anterior margin not remarkably broader ; anterior 

 pair of feet spurious ; wings not very much longer 

 than broad; four hinder feet with double nails; 

 abdomen received in a groove, formed by the 

 dilatation of the inner margin of the inferior 

 wings. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



This is one of the numerous modern genera 

 of Papilionides, that are eminently remarkable 

 by the feeble, abbreviated, and incomplete ante- 

 rior feet of the species of which they are com- 

 posed. These feet are usually so short, as to be 

 altogether useless for the purpose of locomotion ; 

 they are habitually applied against the breast, 



PLATE XXIII. 



