ANALYTICAL TABLES OF THE FAMILIES AND GENERA 
OF LEPIDOPTERA, REPRESENTED IN THE PRECEDING 
PAPER. 
SYNOPSIS OF FAMILIES. 
I. Antennae filiform, terminating in a knob or club.RHOPALOCERES, or Butterflies 
A. Having six feet adapted for walking. 
a. Wings closed back to back and erect in repose. 
b. Colors black, white or yellow; size from medium to large. Fam. 1, Papilionid^. 
bb. General color blue or coppery. Fam. 2, Lyc.enid.e. 
aa. Wings spread in repose, or closed and thrown far back. Fam. 4, Hesperid^e. 
AA. Having four feet adapted for walking, the first pair aborted. Fam. S, Nymphalid.e 
II. Antennae variable, never knobbed or clubbed at the tip.HETEROCERES, or Moths. 
A. Body stout, spindle-shaped; wings narrow ; hind wings about half as long as the fore 
wings ; antennae prismatic. Fam. 1, Sphingid.e. 
B. Size small, wings completely or partly transparent; day flyers. Fam. 2, iEGERiD,E. 
C. Size medium ; head large, free; antennae simple or pectinate, partly swollen in the mid¬ 
dle or partly clavate. Fam. 3, Zygenid.e. 
D. Body usually large, thick; head small and apparently sunken into the thorax ; mouth 
’ parts usually obsolete or very small; antennae pectinate, placed higher on the head 
than usual. Fam. 4, Bombycid^:. 
E. Body thick ; thorax and abdomen often with dorsal tufts : antennae simple or only slightly 
pectinate; wings folded like a flat roof over the body in repose. Fam. 5, Noctuiiee. 
F. Body slender ; scales fine; wings broad, thin, spread out in repose ; antennae usually pec¬ 
tinate ; palpi small. Fam. 6, Phal.enid,e. 
G. Palpi in most species very long and compressed; wings deltoid in repose, or, in some, 
folded round the body.. Fam. 7, Pyralid.e. 
H. Size below the medium ; palpi very short, beak-like ; fore wings oblong, crossed by bands 
that are often metallic.- .Fam. 8. Tortricid^:. 
I. Size small, many minute ; antennae long, filiform ; wings pointed, heavily fringed on pos¬ 
terior margin... Fam. 9, Tineid.e. 
J. Fore wings narrow, bifid (or trifid in a genus not represented here) ; hind wings tri¬ 
fle!. Fam. 10, PTEROPHORID.E. 
8YNOPSIS OF GENERA. 
RHOPALOCERES—Butterflies. 
Family 1—Papilionid.®. 
A. Hind wings tailed. Papilio. 
AA. Hind wings not tailed. 
a. Ground color white or yellowish white. Pieris. 
aa. Ground color yellow or orange. 
b. Border pale yellow, with dark spots in the fringe of the females. Callidrf/as. 
bb. Border black. 
e. Antennae straight, club obconic, round. Cohan. 
ec. Antennae slightly beut, club obconic, compressed. Teriae. 
Family 2—Nymphalid^e. 
A. Club of antennae not. flattened, bent outward ; hind wings of males with a black spot in the 
middle, on a vein... Danaii. 
