ENTOMOLOGY. 



Genus— PAPILIO* Species— PHAL.ENA. 



Generic Character of the Papilio — Body covered ■with 

 hair, the ■wings plain, the antenna; armed "with 

 a capitulum or small knob placed at each ex- 

 tremity. 



CenericCharacter of the Phal&na — Body covered with hair 

 as well as the wings, the antenna; differing in the 

 two sexes, in the male single, short, and thread- 

 shaped, in the female long and branching out and 

 bushy in its texture, having no knob or capitulum 

 at the end. 



IN a former number of the Arcana, we have deli- 

 neated two species of the Genus Fulgora, or Lantern 

 Fly, and endeavoured to point out to our readers, the 

 distinctions of its form, by which it is separated from the 

 butterflies and moths. It is a circumstance well known to 

 Naturalists, although not to every transient observer of the 

 curious works of creation, that the butterfly and moth under- 

 go several astonishing changes, previous to their acquiring 

 their winged or perfect state. In the first place, the parent 

 insect deposits the egg safely under some bough or leaf of a 

 tree or shrub, which in time becomes a creeping animal 

 called a caterpillar, this afterwards weaves for itself a warm 

 kind of covering, in which after laying in a dormant or 

 torpid state for several weeks or months, it bursts forth from 

 its covering and becomes a Fly endowed with wings. This 

 singular dormant situation is named the crysalis state, and 

 when the creature arrives at the fly -state, it becomes a parent 

 to a numerous progeny of eggs, which in process of time 

 undergo the same different changes. The latter circumstances 



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