Class Insecta-Hexapoda. 



ORDER Lepidoptera [Scale-winged Insects]; 



BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS. 



Insects with suctorial mouth-parts, which form a spirally rolled 

 proboscis, with four similar wings which are completely covered with 

 scales. The prothorax is fused. Metamorphosis complete, i.e. these 

 insects pass through three stages after leaving egg; (i) caterpillar or 

 larva; (2) chrysaHs or pupa; (3) perfect butterfly or moth. They grow 

 in stage i only, not in stages 2 and 3. 



TRIBE RHOPALOCERA \Club-horns or Butterflies~\ 



Lepidoptera of slender build, usually with brightly coloured wings 

 and clubbed or knobbed antennae. All European butterflies fly in day- 

 light, usually hold their wings upright and applied together when at rest. 

 Caterpillars which may be naked or clothed with hairs or spines have 

 sixteen feet, six of which are horny, the rest (claspers) fleshy. For the 

 most part the caterpillars develop without cocoons into pups or 

 chrysalides occasionally of a metallic lustre, which attach themselves to 

 leaves, twigs, stones, &c. 



\l"he Habitat and Time of Appear ajice of each species are given after 

 the specific name\. 



