DEIPHOBUS. 
IHIS very large and fine Butterfly, though ii 
native of China, is also well known to exist 
in many parts of the East Indies. 
In the Linnaean- system, the Papillio, or 
Butterriies, are divided into five phalanges, or 
genera : viz. the Equites, or those the under- 
wings of which have each an appendage, or 
tail, and usually, for this reason, denominated 
Swallow-tails ; the Heliconii, or those of 
which the wings are long, narrow, and even at 
the edges, the superior wings being large, and 
the inferior small ; the Danaii, or those the 
wings of which are smooth and even at the 
tdoes, without either denticulations or tails, 
€xa6tly like those of the common white But- 
terfly ; the Nymphales, or those whose wings 
are denticulated, as well as occellated, or 
marked with eye-like spots or rings ; and, 
lastly, the Plebeii, or common herd, compre- 
hending all those numerous tribes of minute 
Butterflies, which seem to be a distinct gene- 
ration. 
