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GENUS TAriLIO, LATREILLE (NEC SCHRANK). 

 Papitto, pt. Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 458 (1858); 

 Latreille, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. iii. p. 387 (1803); xiv. 

 p. 108 (1805) ; id. Enc. Meth. ix. pp. 9, 25 .(1819) ; Bois- 

 duval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. p. 9 (1836) ; Doubleday, Gen. 

 Diurn. Lepid. p. 5 (1846); Felder, Verz. Zool. Bot. Ges. 

 Wien. xiv. p. 289 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lepid. pp. 

 517, 6 37> 8 9> 86 ( l8 7 I ~ l8 77) > Oberthiir, Etudes 

 d'Ent. iv. (1879) Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 42 

 (1886) ; Rothschild, Nov. Zool. ii. pp. 167-463 (1895). 

 The multifarious species included in the old genus Papilio 

 have short palpi, and long antennae, with a gradually-formed 

 club. On the fore-wings the third branch of the sub-costal 

 nervure rises from the end of the cell, and the fourth and 

 fifth form a long fork, generally separating further beyond the 

 cell than in the preceding genera. The upper disco-cellular 

 nervule is rather shorter than the others. The fore-wings are 

 generally triangular or produced towards the tip; the hind- 

 wings are often dentated or tailed. 



It would be useless to go much into detail ; the shape of 

 the wings and the structure of the larva differ very much in 

 the different sections. 



In the following sketch I have followed Felder's grouping, 

 with his numbers, referring to later authors for species discovered 

 since, and supplying generic names, so far as they exist. I 

 have not, however, attempted to include the whole of Felder's 

 seventy-five sections, and some of them, among which are the 

 three first, include Ornithoptera, &c., which I have already 

 discussed. This will explain the omission of several numbers in 

 the series. All the named genera are, however, included. 



[iv.] AscanideS) Geyer. The type, A. triopas (Godart) is a 

 small black Butterfly, from Guiana and the lower Amazons, 

 not expanding much more than two inches across the long and 



