AN 



ACCENTUATED LIST 



OF THE 



BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



LEPIDOPTERA, Z., LEPIDOP'TERA. 



\67Tt9, a scale, Trre/oov, a wing : Insects whose wings are 

 clothed with scales. 



DIURNI, DIUR'NI. Day-fliers. 



PAPILIONIDJE, Lea., Papilio nidae, the family of which the 

 genus Papilio is the type. 



PAPILIO, L., Papilio , papilio , a butterfly. Linnaeus first 

 attempted to combine in some degree Natural 

 and Civil History, by attaching the names of 

 personages, illustrious in their day, to Insects 

 of particular kinds. His first division of the 

 Butterflies consists of Equites (Knights), and 

 these are subdivided into Troes and Achivi 

 (Trojans and Greeks). A Greek knight heads 

 our list. 



MACHAON, L., Machaon. The hero of this name is 

 mentioned by Homer, II. ii. 731 



'A(Tic\'r}7ri,dSa Bvo TralSe, 

 Irjrrjp ayaOoi), TloSaheipios rj8e Ma^awv. 



(The two sons of ^Esculapius, skilled in leech- 

 craft, Podalirius and Machaon.) 



