TRIBE OF LEPIDOPTERA, THE PAPILIONIMJ. 



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PERFECT INSECT. 



Feet, anterior, at the confines of the 

 Thysanuriform stirps, in the group of 

 Erycina;, spurious in the male, perfect in 

 the female ; in the Hesperida: and Ura- 

 nia: perfect in both sexes ; hinder tibia; 

 provided with two pair of spurs, one 

 in the middle the other at the tip. 



Antenn.i, 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 Jtisijvrm club, terminated by an 

 acute point, which is uncinate or hoohed ; 

 in the Urania; lengthened and filiform, 

 with a slender elongate club. 



Palpi, 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. 



Wings : in the resting insect the hinder 

 wings only are elevated : in the Hespe- 

 rida? 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. 



Abdomen, short and thick. Head, large. 

 Eyes, prominent. 



Flight, strong and rapid. 



NAMES, 

 descriptive of the stirpes or of the sub- 

 divisions, in their different states. 

 Dickfalter — Ervnnis — Schranlc. 

 Plebeii Urbicoli. Linn. 

 Hesperides. Latr. 

 Hesferid^:. Leach. 



Les Estropies. Geoffr. 

 Les Bourgeois. Seba. 

 Skippers and Grizzles. Haworth. 



Larvje Tortriciformes. 

 AfterwicMerraupen . 



Normal, 

 in the regular Lepi 



dopterous circle. 

 Erycina. 



Emesis. 

 Danis. 

 Lemonias. 



Eurybia. 



Hesperia. 



Thymele. 



Melius. 



Pamphila. 



Ismene. 



Tamyris. 



GENERA. 



Aberrant, 

 or departing from the 

 regular series, (and 

 genera of which the 

 affinity has not been 

 determined). 



Nymphidium. 



Helicopis. 



Urania. 



Barbicornis. 



(Ce nouveau genre 

 rapproche des Ura- 

 nies parses antennes 

 setacees, fait le pas- 

 sage de la tribe 

 des Papilionides 

 a celle des Hespe- 

 rides.) Latreille, 

 in Encyclop. Me- 

 thod., p. 705. Art. 

 Papillon. 



In the third ^fourth columns, which exhibit a view of the metamorphosis and perfect insect, it has been my object to direct the attention rf the reader to 

 the^lrctel by marking them in italics; and some of the most prominent characters, which show the natural —ons from one stu.s to another, 

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



In the//,* column I have given the first place to the names employed by SehranK, as his genera! division ^gg^^^L^ 

 his names is descriptive of one of our stirpes. I have also extracted in each stirps, the fam.ly names of the W.ener Vermchms, 

 highly appropriate But I have not attempted to introduce a., the names employed by authors for the subd.v.s.ons of the stirpes. 



^voured to arrange the genera according to their natural affinities, as far as my materials have enabled me : a, however in an 



att^o^^^ 



from other sources ; hut many de6ciencies remain to be supplied by future discoveries- 



