RIBE OF LEPIDOPTERA, THE PAPILIONID^. 



NAMES, 

 descriptive of the stirpes or of the sub- 

 divisions, in their different states. 

 DiCKFALTER — Erynnis — Sc/iranL 

 Plebeii Urbicoli. Linn. 

 Hesperides. Latr. 

 Hesferid^. Leach. 



Les Estropies. Geoffr. 

 Les Bourgeois. Seba. 

 Skippers and Grizzles. Haworth. 



Larv^ Tortricieormes. 

 AftenmcUerra upen . 



GENERA. 



Normal, 

 in the regular Lepl- 



dopterous circle. 

 Erycina. 



Emesis. 

 Danis: 

 Lemonias. 



Eurtfbia. 



Aberrant, 

 or departing from the 

 regular series, (and 

 genera of which the 

 affinity has not been 

 determined) . 



Nymphidium. 



Helicopis. 



PERFECT INSECT. 

 ET, anterior, at the confines of the 

 Thysanuriform stirps, in the group of 

 Erycina, spurious in the male, perfect in 

 the female ; in the Hesperidce and Ura- 

 nice perfect in both sexes ; hinder tibia 

 provided with two pair of spurs, one 

 in the middle the other at the tip. 

 STENNiE, diversified in the different 

 groups : in the Erycina provided with 

 an oval club attenuated at both ends; 

 in the Hesperida filiform at the base 

 with a fusiform club, terminated by an 

 acute point, which is uncinate or hooked ; 

 in the Urania lengthened and filiform, 

 with a slender elongate club. 

 4LPI, in the Erycina very short, scarcely 

 projecting beyond the head, third joint 

 very minute ; in the Hesperida the basal 

 and intermediate joints broad, depressed, 

 and closely covered with hair or short 

 truncated bristles, the third joint naked ; 

 in the Urania lengthened and slender, 

 with the third joint delicate and nearly 

 naked. 



Tings : in the resting insect the hinder 

 wings only are elevated : in the Hespe- 

 ridse the brown colour prevails, inclining 

 to black, and the wings are marked with 

 white or yellow semi-transparent spots ; 

 the anterior wings are mostly triangular : 

 the caudal appendages, of the posterior 

 wings, generally curved : discoidal areola 

 not closed. 

 i.BDOMEN, short and thick. Head, large. 



Eyes, prominent. 

 'light, strong and rapid. 



In the tMrd and fourth columns, which exhibit a view of the metamorphosis and perfect insect, it has been my object to '^^^.^'^^tZlZ 'aTother" 

 he typical characters, by marking them in italics ; and some of the most prominent characters, which show the natural transit.ons from one stnps to another, 

 ire placed at the point of connexion and indicated by a brace. 



In the^/..co.umnIhavegiVenthefirstplace to the names employed by Schrank, as his general division °^.*« ^'^ f^^^;* J^^^^lr^^^^^^^^^ 

 .is namesTs descriptive of one of our stirpes. I have also extracted in each stirps, the family names of the Wener Verze.chn.s, as they axe, most cases, 

 nghly appropriate. But I have not attempted to introduce all the names employed by authors for the subdivisions of the stirpes. 



In the «x*A column. I have endeavoured to arrange the genera according to their natural affinities, as far as my materials have enabled me : ^ l'°wever in an 

 « o^tMs natur; from a loci collection, mLy interruptions in the series must necessarily occur, I have endeavoured to supply the connecting hnVs 

 rem other sources ; but many deficiencies remain to be supplied by future discoveries- 



Hesperia. 





Thymele. 



Urania. 



Melius. 





Pamphila. 



Barbicornis. 



Ismene. 



(Ce nouveau genre 

 rapproch6 des Ura- 

 nies parses an tennes 





setacees, fait le pas- 



Tamyris. 



sage de la tribe 

 des Papilionides 





a celle des Hespe- 





rides.) Latreille, 





in Encyclop. Me- 

 thod., p. 705. Art. 





Papillon. 



