IBE OF LEPIDOPTERA, THE PAPILIONID^. 



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PERFECT INSECT. 

 ENNiE, filiform at the base, with a dub 

 ing abruptly at the extremiti/, in the typi- 

 1 species broad and compressed, and in 

 e of the subdivisions orbiculate. 

 PI, with the basal and second joints broad 

 d robust, covered with hair and beset 

 derneath with long straggling bristles, 

 e third joint projecting beyond the head, 

 vered with down ; converging in the typi- 

 ;1 species and forming a rostellum or beak : 

 tuft of long hair at the extremity of the 

 cond joints. 



rGS, erect in the resting insect : anterior 

 ings narrow and greatly expanded, with 

 igulated, scalloped, or deeply indented mar- 

 ns ; posterior wings with a deep abdomi- 

 J groove, entire or dentated, rarely with 

 lort, acute caudal appendages; : nervures 

 stinct : discoidal areola closed. 

 )OMEN, either slender and compressed, 

 in the typical group, robust and ab- 

 reviated. 



iBOscis, long and robust. 

 GHT, strong and rapid. 



intermediate and posterior, terminated 

 y claws and pulvilli with membranaceous, 

 \uhescent, bifid appendages at their base: 

 nteriorjeet spurious and imperfect. 



iT, anterior as in the last stirps. 

 lEXNa;, filiform, surpassing in proportion- 

 te length these organs in all other stirpes of 

 his tribe ; club slender. 

 LPi, curved, ascending, with the third joint 

 \alced, compressed, and rising above the 

 lead. 



NGS, generally of a brown colour, and, in 

 nany species, adorned with a brilliant gloss 

 if blue and pre-eminently marked with large 

 )rnamental ocelli appearing often on both 

 surfaces ; with the greatest expansion from 

 he anterior to the posterior margin, or in the 

 iirection of the body of the insect : hinder 

 uings, with a deep abdominal groove, en- 

 ire, dentated, or produced to a short round 

 joint. Discoidal areola not uniformly closed. 

 iDOMEN, short ; the male of some species 

 jrovided with fascicles of long silky hairs. 

 OBOScis, of moderate length and size. 

 iGHT, slow. 



NYMPHALIDiE. 



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NAMES, 

 descriptive of the stirpes or of the sub- 

 divisions, in their dififerent states. 

 DoRNFALTER — Papilio — Schrank. 

 Danai festivi. -V 



Nymph ALES phalerati. >L«ran. in part. 

 Nymphales gemmati. -* 

 Heliconii. Fabr. 



Swainson and Stephens, 

 in part. 



Larvee acutospinoscB. Fam. I, Wien. Verz. 

 LarvcB pseudospinosce. Fam. L, W. V. 

 Larvee collospinosce, Fam. K, W. V. 

 LarvcB subspinoscB. Fam. H, W. V. 

 Larvee spinosee. Esper. 



Papiliones angulati. Eckflilgelichte Falter, 

 Papiliones variegati. Scheckichte Falter. 

 Papiliones nobiles. Silberreiche Falter. 

 Papiliones multifasciati. Fleckstreifigte 

 Falter. 



Les drgentes. Geoffr. Silver-spotted) Fritil- 

 Leg damiers. Geoffr. Buff'-spoited i lories. 



GENERA. 

 Normal, Aberrant, 



in the regular Lepi- or departing from the 

 dopterous circle. regular series, (and 



genera of which the 

 Euploea. affinity has not been 



ascertained.) 



Stutzfalter — ^Maniola — Schrank. 

 Nymphales gemmati. Linn, in part. 

 Nymphalidje. Swainson and Stephens Qgnus Nov 

 in part. 



Idea. 



Heliconia 



AcRiEA. 



Heteera. (?) 



Vanessa. 



LiBYTHJEA. 



Cykthia. 





Melitjea. 





Argynnis. 



Neptis. (?) 



BiBLIS. 





(Strictly as applied by 





Fabricius.) 





Limenitis. 





Gen. Nov. Limenitidi 





affine. 





Apatura. 





LarveB comuteB. Fam. G, Wien. Verz. 

 Larvee subfurcatee. Fam. F, W. V. 

 LarveB bicaudatee. Esper. 



Papiliones versicolores. Schielende Falter. 



Randaugigte Falter. 



Les changeants. Mus. Richt. 



Les Gtimpans. Geoffr. 



Paphia. 



Amathusia. 



MORPHO. 



Genus Novum. 



MALAiJITIS. 



HiPPARCHIA. 



Nemeobius. 



(Forming the transi- 

 tion to Erycina ?) 



Cethosia. 



Brassolis. 



