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AUTHENTIC HISTORY 



lateral; antennce generally long and many-jointed, and also very variable in form; 

 moiith comi^osed apparently of a long and spirally coiled organ, which the insect em- 

 ploys in sipping the sweet substances from flowers, upon which it subsists; when not 

 used, this delicate proboscis is coiled up and defended between two large compressed 

 organs called the palpi, which are inserted upon a lip, in front of the head; abdomen 

 destitute of a sting; the body \ery pilose, or hairy, and variable in respect to size; legs 

 slender and hairy, but variable in difterent sexes and species. No kinds of insects are 

 moi'e dissimilar in their different stages of metamorphosis, than those belonging to this 

 order. When they issue from the egg, we recognize their larvce under the familiar form 

 of "caterpillars;" these change into a chrysalis ov pupa, from which the i^erfect insect 

 is in due time produced. The larvae are uniformly comjiosed of thirteen segments, or 

 sections; the first represents the head, the second, third and fourth the thorax, and the 

 remaining ones the abdomen. They may be all included under the following groux^s 

 established by Linnaeus, namely: 

 I. Diurnia — or day-fliers. 

 II. Crepuscularia — or twilight-fliers. 



III. Nocturnia — or night-fliers. 



These groups are numerously represented in Lancaster county, although the individ- 

 uals brought under them, respectively, are by no means constant to the general char- 

 acteristics, but vary more or less from them. 



SECT. I. DIURNIA— OR DAT-FLIERS, 

 Includes the insects properly known as 

 Butterflies. 



Papilionid^. 



Papilio Lin. 



turnus Lin. 



glaucus Lin. 



troilus Lin. 



philenor Lm. 



asterius Fab. 



ajax Lin. 

 PoNTiA Fab. 



casta Kir. 



oleracea liar. 

 COLIAS Fab. 



philodice God. 



edusa? Fab. 

 PiERis Lat. 



nicippe Ood. 



lisa? Boisd. 



Danaid^. 



Danais Bois. 

 archippus Fab. 



Nymphalidje. 



Argtnnis Fab. • 



idalia Dru. 

 cybele God. 

 myrina Crm. 



aphrodite Boi. 



columbina Boi. 



astarte? Don. 



bellona? God. 

 Melit^a Fab. 



phaeton Crm. 



nycteis Doii. 



tharos Crm. 

 Grapta Dou. 



interrogationis God. 



comma liar. 

 Vanessa Fab. 



antiopa Lin. 



progne Crm. 



furcillata Say. 



lintneri Fell. 

 Pyrameis Hub. 



atalanta Lin. 



cardui Lin. 



huntera Sm. 

 Nymphalis Lat. 



Ursula Fab. 



disippus God. 



Satyrid^. 



Neonympha Hub. 



eui'ythris Fab. 



acmenis Hub, 



polixeues Fab. 



cantheus? Fab. 

 Satyrus Fab. 



