LEPIDOPTERA. 

PAPILIO MACENAS. 

GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne increafe in bulk towards the extremity, and ufually terminate in a kind of club. 
Wings, when at reft, ere&t. Fly in day-time. 
Plebeii rurales. Lz. ¢ 

SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
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Upper fide black, difk blue. Two tails to each pofterior wing. Under fide clouded with brown. 

Hesperta Macenas: alis bicaudatis atris: difco ceruleo, fubtus brunneo nebulofis. 
Fab. Ent. Syft. T.1. p. 1. 271. 45. 


We are indebted for this rarity to T. Marfham, Efgq. It is defcribed by Fabricius from an original 
drawing “, and has not been figured by any author. 
© Plebeii rurales, alis maculis obfcurioribus. Spots on the wings obfcure, or not tranfparent.—The piledezi is the laft family 
of Butterflies in the Linnean fyftem, and is divided into two fe€tions, rurales and urbicole. Fabricius removes this family from 
the Papiliones (Butterflies) to a new genus He/peria. This genus is however divided after the Linnean method into two feétions, 
rurales and urbicole, and contain nearly the whole of the Linnean p/ebeiz, in addition to the later difcovered fpecies. The effen- 
tial charaéter of the’ Hefperia is, Palpi two, comprefied, hairy, apex cylindrical, naked. Antenne cludbed, oblong, often 

crooked at the extremity. 
d Fon. fig. pi&. 6. tab. 3» fig. 2. 







