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on weeds, or on plants of little value. Pieris rapes (the cabbage butterfly), is undoubtedly 

 the most offensive of the race, but even the farmer who humanely sold his cabbages, 

 which had been attacked by P. rapes, because he deemed them unfit for food, met with a 

 ready sale, and no purchaser was known to have been injured by them. Here and there 

 ■a carrot, or a parsnip, may be somewhat smaller because Papilio Asterias has fed upon its 

 top, but surely the beauty of the imago amply pays lor the trifling damage done by the 

 larva. Indeed, we may thank God that He has provided such visions of beauty and 

 grace as the butterflies afford, and at so small a cost to the beholders. 



FAMILIES AND SUB- FAMILIES OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 

 PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 



Family I. 



PAPILIONIDM. 

 Six legs fitted for walking. 



Sub-family I Papilionidi Inner margin of hind wing concave. 



Sub-family II Pieridi Inner margin of hind wing convex. 



Family II. 



DANAIDuE. 



Six legs fitted for walking. Wings rounded, antennae with long and curved knob. 



Family III. 



NYMPHALIBM. 



First pair of legs rudimentary. Only four legs fitted for talking. 



Sub-family I Satyridi Spotted insects with rounded wings. 



Sub-family II Nymphalidi ........ .Wings rounded. Conspicuous bands 



on hind wings. 



Sub-family III Vanessidi Wings with angular projections. 



Sub-family IV Argynnidi Tawny, black-spotted insects. Hind 



wings rounded. 



Family IV. 



LYGENIDJS. 



Six leg3 fitted for walking. Insects of small size. 



Family V. 



HESPEBID^S. 



Mostly small insects. Head bread. Antennae set wide apart. Six legs of equaJ length. 



