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proportion to their width, as the Proteus , Phidias > 

 and others. 



The antennae in this lad divifion are gene- 

 rally uncinnated or crooked at their extremity ; 

 fame of them have likewife tails, but thefe are 

 very broad and ftrong, and are always ciliated 

 or edged with a fringe of hairs, as in the Pro- 

 teus, &c. 



The bloody fpots mentioned by Linnasus, are 

 not always found on the breads of the Eq. Tro- 

 jani, nor is the interior angle of the Achivi al- 

 ways adorned with an eye, fo that the lured me- 

 thod is to refer fuch Equites as are of dark or 

 mourning colours, to the family of the Troes 9 

 and thofe of gay, lively ones, to that of the 

 Achivi. 



The under wings of a great many of the Papi- 

 liones, placed by Linnssus among his Heliconi'i* 

 are flightly indented, and as they are without 

 eyes, they ought, ftrictly (peaking, to be referred 

 to the Nymphaks Phalerati, but are didinguifli- 

 able by the delicacy of their texture, and the 

 fmoothnefs of their wings, which are lefs cover- 

 ed with fcales than thofe of the lad- mentioned 

 family. 



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