THE GENERA 



OF 



DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA: 



COMPRISING 



THEIR GENERIC CHARACTERS, 



A NOTICE OF THEIR HABITS AND TRANSFORMATIONS, AND 



A CATALOGUE OF THE SPECIES OF EACH GENUS. 



BY EDWARD DOUBLEDAY, F.L.S. F.Z.S. 



ASSISTANT IN THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OP THE BRITISH MUSEUM ; 

 SECRETARY OP THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON ; 



MEM. ROY. GEOGR. SOC. ; ENT. SOC. FRANCE, STETTIN, AND PENNSYLVANIA ; V. P. BOT. SOC. LONDON ; HON. MEM. NAT. HIST. SOC. HESSE-DARMSTADT ; 

 COR. MEM. NAT. HIST. SOC. BOSTON U. S., ROY. SOC. AGR. AND NAT. HIST. LYONS, LINN. SOC. LYONS, ETC. ETC. 



AND 



JOHN 0. WESTWOOD, F.L.S. 



PRESIDENT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON ; 



nON. MEM. mST. SOC. QUEBEC, SOC. NAT. HIST. BOSTON U. S., ENT. SOC. PENNSYLVANIA, AND ENT. SOC. STETTIN ; 

 MEM. SOC. CJES. NAT. CUR. MOSCOW; PHYSIOGR. SOC. LUND; SOC. ROY. SCI. LILLE; SOC. ROY. LYONS; SOC. HIST. NAT. MAURITIUS; 



SOCC. CUVIERR., PniLOMAT., AND ENTOMOL. DE FRANCE, ETC. ETC. 



ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHTY-SIX PLATES, 



BY WILLIAM C. HEWITSON, 



AUTHOR OP " BRITISH OOLOGY," ETC. 



IN TWO VOLUMES. 



VOL. I. 



CONTAINING THE FAMILIES PAPILTONILVE, PIERILVE, AGERONILVE, DANALLVE, HELICONILVE, ACRTEIDJE, AND 



PART OF THE NYMPHALIDiE : 



BY EDWARD DOUBLEDAY. 



LONDON: 



LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 



1846—1850. 



