i 3 2 ORDER HI. Papilio. 



which term does not regard 

 the colours of thefpots, often 

 very beautiful, but their na- 

 ture, they not being pellucid, 

 or tranfparent : Or 



Vrbicoli^ the fpots on the wings 

 of vVhich are for the moil 

 part tranfparent. 



The divifion of the Butterflies into families, 

 from the circumftances chofen by Linnseus, 

 feems liable to many objections ; the family of 

 the Plebeii, in particular, is very inaccurate, and 

 contains infects very different from one an- 

 other, at the fame time that they refemble, and 

 have all the characters of fome or other of the 

 preceding ones, under which many of them, I 

 think, might be properly arranged \ the remain- 

 ing Plebeii would compofe a family very diftinft 

 from all the others, and which might be formed 

 into two fe&ions, the firfc containing fmall But- 

 terflies, having long and flexible or weak tails, 

 fiender bodies, and clubbed antennae, as theCW- 

 pido, the Marjyas, the Bceticus* &c. the other 

 diftinguilhed by the fhortnefs, thicknefs, or 

 breadth of their head, thorax, and abdomen, and 

 by the fhape of their upper wings, which in thefe 

 'laft are pointed at their extremity, and long in 



proportion 



