DESCRIPTION OF THE BUTTERFLIES 



ENUMERATED IN THE SYNOPTICAL TABLE, 



ffitit AiUhoi-ities and References to fVorks where they are 

 figured, and Observations on their Habits, ^c. 



Genus Papilio, Plate I. Fig. ). 



A]Uennis long, with a tapering curred knob : joints more 



than thirty. 

 Palpi short, not extending beyond the head. 

 Forelegs perfect : cubit armed in the middle with a lance 



shaped spur; shanks with two spurs each at the tip.* 

 Claws simple, without foot cushions. f 

 Primary flyings intire, triangular. 

 Secondary roundish, scalloped, often tailed. 

 Egg unknown. 

 Caterpillar naked, with a Y-shaped scent-organ i.ssuing from 



its neck when alarmed. 

 Chrysalis angular, girted,J head-case eared.§ 

 Sepp. I. ii. pi. iii. 



• lulroduolion to Entomology, iii. 369, d. 384, c. N. B. All 

 Butterflies have shanks with two spurs each. 



t Ibid. 386, a. 



t Suspended by a single thread round its body. 



\ That is called an eared head-case, which terminates in a pair 

 or processes somewhat resembling ears. 



