TRIBE OF LEPIDOPTERA, THE PAPILIONIDiE. 



59 



PERFECT INSECT. 

 Antennje, clavate, very gradually and uni- 

 formly incrassated, or filiform and ter- 

 minated by a cylindrical compressed 

 club abruptly bent outward. 



Palpi, with the third joint very long, 

 naked, 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. Claws minute, sin- 

 gle in the anterior feet of the male. 



Wings, erect, when the insect is at rest ; 

 anterior wings oblong or triangular, p>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 compressed. 



Proboscis, moderately elongated, naked 

 or provided with transverse bristles at the 

 extremity. 



Flight, comparatively slow. 



Antenn.s, 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, tibia 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 triangular. 

 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. 



NAMES, 

 descriptive of the stirpes or of the sub- 

 divisions, in their different states. 

 Sciiildfalter — Cupido — Schranlc. 

 Plebeii Rurales. Linn. 



POLYOPHTHALMI. AldrOV. 



Polyommatid.s:. Swainson. 



LyciENiDiE. Stephens. 



Les Argus, Geoffr. Blues. 



Les Bronze's, Geoffr. Coppers. 



Les petits portes-queue, Geoff. Hairstrealcs. 



Larvce gibboscutatce. Fam. N, Wien. Verz. 



Larva oblongoscutatce. Fam. M, W. V. 



Larvce depressoscutatce. Fam. O, W. V. 



Larvce contractce. Esper. 



L,arvce onisciformes. 



Assel fbrmige Raupen. ( 



Chenilles Cloportes. 



Papiliones (strictly so called). 



Edelf alter — Pieris — Schrank. 



Equites — Troes et Achivi.-* 



Heliconii. >Linn. 



Danai candidi. -' 



Danai Flavi. Wien. Verz. 



Parnassii. Fabr. 



Larvce variegatce. Fam. C, W. V. 



Larvce mediostriatce. Fam. D, W. V. 



Larvce pallidiventres. Fam. E, W. V. 



Larvce bombyciformes. Fam. B, W. V. 



Larvce nudce. (Equites) Esper. 



Larvce holosericece. | UeVlC0nii _ Esper 



Larvce pilosce. J 



Swallow-tails. 



Black-veins. 



Whites. 



Clouded-yellows. 



Brimstones. 



Normal, 



in the regular Lepi- 

 dopterous circle. 



Petavia. 



This genus, nearly re- 

 lated to Hesperia, 

 forms in our series 

 the transition from 

 the Anopluriform 

 to the Vermiform 

 stirps. 



Polyommatus. 



Lyc^ena. 



Aberrant, 

 or departing from the 

 regular series, (and 

 genera of which the 

 affinity has not been 

 determined). 



Symetha. 



Thecla. 



Myrina. 



Colias. 



Gonepteryx. 



Terias. 



Pieris. 



Pontia. 



Papilio. Leucophasia. 



Sect. I. antennce ivith 



prominent annuli. r ■ ■ ■ 



1 _ Licinia. 



Sect. II. antennce with 

 an oval compressed 

 club. Thais. 



Sect. III. antennce 

 with obscure annuli. 



Doritis. 



Zelima. 



i 2 



