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ORDER III. Papilia. 



The under wings of the Danai feftivi are 

 likewife often indented, but in that cafe they are 

 generally edged with a kind of fringe, or their 

 margins, efpecially on the under fide, furrounded 

 by one or more waved lines, or rows of white 

 fpots ; thofe Butterflies, therefore, whofe wings 

 are but Jlightly indented, adorned with eyes, and 

 the margins furrounded b>y rows of white fpots, 

 or narrow^ waving lines, belong rather to this 

 family than to that of the Nymphales Gemmati. 



Scopoli and Geoflfroy have divided this genus 

 into different families principally from the num- 

 ber of their feet ; a method which cannot eafily 

 be purfued in cabinets where exotic Butterflies 

 are admitted, thefe parts being generally de- 

 flroyed before fuch infe&s reach Europe. The 

 other circumfiances from which Geoffroy has 

 taken his divifions into families, viz. the form 

 of the caterpillars, is totally impracticable, ex- 

 cept where the collector admits no other But- 

 terflies into his cabinet but fuch as he has 

 Jiimfelf poflfefTed in the caterpillar (late. 



The pups of all Butterflies are ohe3a and 

 naked) and, exeept thofe of the Danai Candid^ 

 are fufpended perpendicularly in the open air, 

 being attached by their tail to the under fide? 

 of branches of trees, leaves of plants, &c, 



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