LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



The Ageronida were raised to the rank of a distinct family 

 through an error regarding their metamorphoses, and are now 

 included in the Nymphalidce. The Eurytelidce (except the 

 genus ElymniaS) which is either referred to the Satyrid<z> or 

 regarded as a distinct family or sub-family), and even the 

 Morphidce, are also merged in the Nymphalidce by some 

 authors, but all the other groups are still generally recognised, 

 either as families or sub-families. 



Bates, in a series of papers published from 1862 to 1866, 

 argued that the Butterflies with imperfect front legs should be 

 placed first in the arrangement, as being furthest removed 

 from the Moths ; and his views have been adopted by most 

 recent English and American Lepidopterists, Except that I re- 

 tained the Elymniina and Morphine, which Bates was inclined 

 to unite with the Nymphalina, as separate sub-families, and 

 that one or two names arc changed, the arrangement which I 

 employed in my " Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidop- 

 tera" (1871), is nearly the same as that of Bates : 



I. Nymphalidae. II. Lemoniidae. 



Sub-fam. i. Danainae. Sub-fam. i. Libythaeinae. 



,, 2. Satyrinae. 2. Nemeobiinos. 



3. Elymniinae. ,, 3. Euselasiince. 



4. Morphinae. 4. Lemoniinae. 



5. Brassolinae. III. Lycaenidae. 



,, 6. Acraeinae. IV. Papilionidae. 



7. Heliconinae. Sub-fam. i. Pierinae. 



8. Nymphalinae. 2. Papilioninae. 



V. Hesperidae. 



The following summary shows the gradual increase in our 



knowledge of the species of Butterflies : 



Species. 

 1758. Linnaeus ... ... ... ... 192 



1767- 2 73 



