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received in a groove, formed by the dilatation of the inner mar- 

 gin of the inferior wings. 



Obs. This is one of the numerous modern genera of Papilioni- 

 des, that are eminently remarkable by the feeble, abbreviated, and 

 incomplete anterior feet of the species of which they are com- 

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

 less for the purpose of locomotion ; they are habitually applied 

 against the breast, and are altogether destitute of nails. The 

 larvae are elongated, and feed on leaves, and the chrysalids are 

 suspended by the tail, with the head towards the earth. For the 

 genus Inmenitis, we are indebted to Fabricius ; but this learned 

 author has not left us sufficiently obvious characters, by which to 

 distinguish it from his closely allied genus Apatura. We are, in 

 fact, inclined to consider them both as sub-genera, as well as 

 many other of the Fabrician genera of Lepidoptera. 



Limenitis arthemis. — Specific character. Brown-black ; 

 wings indented, with a common white band, and common margi- 

 nal row of double blue lunules ; a series of six ferruginous dots 

 on the posterior wings ; venter and lateral line, white. 



Nymph. Plied. Arthemis Drury, vol. ii. pi. 10, fig. 3 and 4. 



Desc. Body black : occiput with two white points ; a short 

 white line behind each eye : palpi white on the exterior side : 

 wings with a broad common white band a little beyond the mid- 

 dle, intersected by the black nervures which are not margined ; 

 a common marginal series of double blue lunules : edge alternat- 

 ing with white and black ; superior wings with three or four 

 white dots beyond the band, but immaculate between the band 

 and base : inferior wings with a serious of six fulvous dots between 

 the white band and marginal lunules : beneath fulvo-ferruginous, 

 with the white band, marginal lunules, white and black alternat- 

 ing lines of the edge, and white spots of the superior wings, as 

 distinct as those of the superior surface ; superior wings, between 

 the white band and base, dark purplish, with two fulvous spots, 

 and two or three whitish or bluish ones ; inferior wings dull ful- 

 vous between the band and base, with three or four brighter 

 spots, which are interspersed with bluish : pleura with about 

 three white spots at the base of the wings, and another at the 

 base of the superior wings : coxa) with a white spot : anterior 



