MARIUS Cinna. 
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Family Nymphalide. (Stirps. 3? Horsf.) 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Larva and pupa unknown. 
Perfect insect. Wings Papilioniform, caudal appendages long, 
acute. Palpi porrect, approximating, and meeting at their 
tips so as to form an acute cone: the whole covered with com- 
pact scales. Anterior feet smali, slender, imperfect, the tarsal 
joints? concealed by long hairs: club of the antenne terminal, 
sub-fuciform and cylindric. Body short, thick, robust. 
Type, Papilio Marius. Auct. 
SpEciFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings above brown, with two unequal white bands ; beneath white, 
with narrow fulvous bands ; basal angle of the posterior wings 
with an orange spot, ocellated with black. 
Papilio Cinna. Cramer Vol. 1. pl. 100. f. 8. 
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Cramer describes this elegant Butterfly as a native of Su- 
rinam, and our own specimens were received from the same 
country. All thespecies of this group that have yet fallen 
under our inspection, are natives of South America. Their 
flight is high, powerful and rapid: the predominating co- 
lour on the upper surface of their wings is brown, and on 
the under white. 
It is the misfortune of not understanding the typical 
structure, and the principles which regulate its variation, 
in higher groups, that in defining the characters of a lesser, 
we can form no just idea of its relative value: whether, in 
short, we should consider it a genus or a sub genus, or whe- 
ther itis typical, aberrant, or osculent. This, however, is but 
a temporary evil; and will only continue until an insight 
is gained into higher combinations, by first placing toge- 
ther kindred species under one common name. If this be 
done heedfully, such a group must be natural, whatever 
opinions may be entertained in the first instance, as to its 
proper denomination. 
