Papilio. LEPIDOPTERA. 12 y 



This order is divided into three genera, 

 viz. 



Genus I. Papilio. 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. page 744. 



The antennae of the Papilio (generically 

 known with us by the name of Butterfly) 

 grow thicker towards their extremity, and 

 are in moft fubjedrs terminated by a kind of 

 capitulum, or head. 



Their wings, when fitting or at reft, are 

 ereft, infomuch, that their extremities meet 

 or touch one another above the body. 



They fly in the day-time. 



They are divided into feftions, diftin- 

 guillied one from another by the following 

 characteristics. 



j. The Equites y known by the fhape of 

 their fuperior or upper wings, 

 which are longer from their 

 hinder corner or angle to their 

 anterior extremity, than from the 



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