LEriDOPTEROUS INSECTS. 21 



Genus VANESSA, Latreille. 

 Antennae terminated by an abrupt short club ; 

 palpi contiguous, even at the extremity, the two 

 combined, resembling a rostrum ; anterior pair 

 of feet in both sexes, short and very hairy ; the 

 two posterior pairs of tarsi, with double nails. 



Genus POLYOMMATUS, Latreille. 



Palpi longer than the head, and nearly parallel, 

 having three joints clothed with scales above, the 

 first of which is short and curved, the second 

 long, the third as long as the first, and destitute 

 of hairs ; the antennae are rather short, and pro- 

 vided with more than thirty joints, -with an 

 abrupt flattish clubbed tip, ending in a point 

 placed edgeways : these in some species are 

 downy, and not so in others ; legs alike in both 

 sexes ; feet provided with very short cushions ; 

 beyond which are minute undivided claws ; the 

 wings are entire, the upper ones triangular, and 

 somewhat wedge-shaped; under wings ovo-tri- 

 angular, and hardly indented at the posterior 

 angle. 



FAMILY II. HESPERIDES. 



The posterior legs are provided with two pairs of 

 spurs ; the lower wings are nearly horizontal 

 while in repose; the antennae, in some species, 



