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in the two former divisions : it is attached by the abdomen, 

 while the head is directed perpendicularly downwards; in 

 form is greatly diversified. Representing the Chilopodiform 

 or Scolopendriform Ametabola." [Vanessidae of Doubleday's 

 List.] 



" Fourndy. A lengthened cylindrical striated larva, some- 

 what smaller at each end, apparently of an agile habit, naked, 

 or covered with a slight down, having a head of moderate 

 size armed with two erect spines, or provided with a movable 

 shield, often of great size, and beset with erect hornlike pro- 

 cesses ; but the chief characteristic of this division consists 

 in two \Q\y strongly marked lengthened filiform or spinous 

 appendages at the extremity of the abdomen. The pupa is 

 attached by the tail and suspended perpendicularly, as in the 

 last division ; its head is in general terminated by two points 

 of various form and length. Representing the Thysanuri- 

 form Ametabola." [Apatura and Satyridae of Doubleday's 

 List.] 



" Fifthhj. A cylindrical larva, nearly naked, with a very 

 large head, often globular, and attached to the body by a long 

 neck ; characteristically distinguished from the other sub- 

 divisions by its blinitness and abrupt termination behind ; 

 the pupa being covered with a convoluted leaf. Representing 

 the Anopluriform Ametabola." [Hesperidae of Doubleday's 

 List.] 



No entomologist worthy of the name will for a moment 

 doubt the value of these divisions, or say that they are un- 

 natural, and therefore unsound; but there are those who, 

 smiling at all attempts to restrict Nature to certain numbers 

 in the divisions of the Animal Kingdom, will be unwilling to 

 accept this quinary division of butterflies ; and will altogether 

 regret the fanciful comparison of lepidopterous larvae with the 

 various divisions of apterous annulales. To me it has ap- 

 peared that Dr. Horsfield, confessedly one of our greatest 

 lepidopterists, has in this arrangement made the real sub- 

 servient to the ideal; and has thus lost the best opportunity 

 an entomologist has ever possessed of establishing an unex- 

 ceptionable classification. 



Mr. Swainson's views are open to the same objection, 

 although certainly cntijtled to commendation as evincing 

 great knowledge of his subject; and it is worthy of note that 



