:ribe of lepidoptera, the papilionid^. 



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PERFECT INSECT. 

 \.NTENNiE, clavate, very gradually and uni- 

 formly incrassated, or filiform and ter- 

 minated by a cylindrical compressed 

 club abruptly lent outward. 

 Palpi, with the third joint very long, 

 nahed, and directed forward, the basal 

 and intermediate joints slender, elon- 

 gated, and sparingly covered. 

 Feet, mid-legs with a short spinous process 

 to the tibice, anterior legs perfect, rarely 

 slightly abbreviated. C^atos minute, sin- 

 gle in the anterior feet of the male. 

 Wings, erect, when the insect is at rest ; 

 anterior wings oblong or triangular, 2^os- 

 terior wings entire, dentated, or provided 

 with one or more linear or filiform cau- 

 dal appendages. Nervures simple, deli- 

 cate, discoidal areola not closed. — (Jones 

 in Linn. Trans., vol. ii. p. 63, &c.) 

 Abdomen, small, slender, and compi'essed. 

 Pkoboscis, moderately elongated, naked 

 or provided with transverse bristles at the 

 extremity. 

 Flight, comparatively slow. 



NAMES, 

 descriptive of the stirpes or of the sub- 

 divisions, in their different states. 

 ScHiLDFALTER — CuPiDO — SchrauJc. 

 Plebeii Rurales. Linn. 



POLYOPHTHALMI. AldrOV.. 



PoLYOMMATlDa;. Swaiuson. 

 . LyciENiDiE. Stephens. 

 Les Argus, Geoffr. Blues. 

 Les Bronzes, Geoffr. Coppers. 

 Les petits portes-queue, Geoff. Hairstreaks. 

 Larvcs gihhoscutatce. Fam. N, Wien. Verz. 

 LarvcB oblongoscutatce. Fam. M, W. V. 

 Larva depressoscutatcB. Fam. O, W. V. 



Larva contracts. Esper. 



Larvcs onisciformes. 



Asselformige Raupen. 



Chenilles Cloportes. 



GENERA. 



Normal, Aberrant, 



in the regular Lepi- or departing from the 



dopterous circle. regular series, (and 



Petavia. genera of which the 



Thisgenus, nearlyre- affinity has not been 



lated to Hesperia, determined). 



forms in our series 



the transition from 



the Anopluriform Symetha. 



to the Vermiform 



stirps. 



POLYOMMATUS. 



Lycsina. 



Antenn/E, marked with prominent rings 

 at the joints, elongate, filiform at the 

 base, incrassated towards the club, 

 which is cylindrical and attenuated at 

 both ends, or oval, compressed with the 

 annuli crowded towards the extremity. 

 Palpi (in the typical group), shorter than 

 the head, the third joint very minute, 

 the basal and intermediate joints con- 

 cealed by a covering of bristly hair ; (in 

 the genera near the vermiform stirps 

 the third joint slightly projecting.) 

 Feet, long and robust, tibice of the ante- 

 rior feet, in the typical group, with a 

 short acute process near the middle ; (in 

 Colias slightly abbreviated.) Claws large 

 and robust. 

 Wings, erect, when the insect is at rest; 

 subfalcate, or simple and triangulai-. 

 Nervures strong and prominent, discoi- 

 dal areola closed, posterior wings cut 

 out to receive the abdomen, often pro- " 

 vided with spatulate caudal appendages. 

 Abdomen, cylindrical. 

 Proboscis, long and robust. 

 Flight, strong and rapid. 



Papiliones (strictly so called). 

 Edelfalter — PiERis — Schrank. 

 Eguites — Troes et Achivi.-. 

 Heliconii. >Linn. 



Danai candidi. -^ 



Danai Flavi. Wien. Verz. 

 Parnassii. Fabr. 

 LarvcB variegatce. Fam. C, W. V. 

 Larvce mediostriata. Fam. D, W. V. 



Larva pallidiventres. Fam. E, W. V. 



Larvce bombyciformes. Fam. B, W. V. 



LarvcB nudcB. (Equites) Esper. 



Larvce holosericece. 



Larvce piloses. 



Swallow-tails. 



Black-veins. 



Whites. 



Clouded-yellmvs. 



Brimstones. ' 



V Heliconii — Esper. 



Thecla. 



Myrina. 



Colias. 



Gonepteryx. 



Terias. 



Pieris. 



Pontia. 



Papilio. Leucophasia. 



Sect. I. antenna with 



prominent annuli. Hdnia. 



Sect. II. antenna with 

 an oval compressed 

 club. Thais. 



Sect. III. antenna 

 with obscure annuli. 



Doritis. 



Zelima. 



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