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Show lNSf~CTA. 176 We may divide this section, extremely rich in species, in the fol· lowing manner. 1. Those in which the third joint of the inferior pal pi is some· times almost wanting, and sometimes very distinct, but as well furnished with scales as the preceding one, and in which the hooks of the tarsi are very apparent or salient. Their caterpillars are elongated and almost cylindrical. Their chrysalides are almost always angular, sometimes smooth, but en-closed in a rude cocoon. Of these, there are some-the llexapoda-in which all the feet arc adapted for walking, and are almost identical in both sexes(l). Their chrysalis, in addition to the ordinary posterior attachment, is fixed by a silken thread over its body. That of some is enclosed in a rude cocoon. The central cell of the lower wing is closed inferiorly(2). Here the internal margin of these wings is concave or plaited. PAPILIO proper.-P. Equites, Lin. Where the inferior palpi are very short, scarcely reaching the clypeus with their superior extremity, and their third joint is indistinct. The caterpillars, when alarmed, protrude from the superior part of their neck a soft, forked born, that usually diffuses a penetrating and disagreeable odour. Their skin is naked. The chrysalis is at· tached with a silken band and exposed. The species of this subgenus are remarkable for their size and varied colouring. They are more particularly abundant in the tro· vical countries of both hemispheres. Those with red spots on the breast form the division of the Equites Troes or Trojan Knights of Linnreus. Those which are destitute of those marks in that place ( 1) The Papilios properly so called, or those belonging to the Linn a: an division of the Equites, are connected by one extremity of the series with the mottled Danaides, and by the other with the Parnassii. From the latter we 'pass to Thais and thence to Pieris. The preceding Danaides connect themselves with the He· liconii· From this it follows that we should begin the series of the diurnal Lepi· doptera with the Tetrapoda, such as Satyt•us, Pavonia, Morpho and Nymphalis, in order to reach the Heliconii through Argynnis and Cethosia. The Diurn:e would be dividtKl into two great sections; those whose chrysalids are suspended verti· cally, and simply attached by the extremity of their tail, and those where they are not only fixed by that extremity, but also by a silken band surrounding the body like a sling. The fu·st are always tetrapodous. We would begin with those Of which the caterpillars are naked or nearly so, and genet·ally bifid at the posterior extremity; then would come those where they are spinous. (2) I employed this character in my Gener. Crust. et Insect.; Dalman nnd Go-dart have generalized its application in relation to this family. LEP1DOP1'EUA. he styles .!J.chivi or G k 177 I d · ree 8 onge mto a sort of tail. •S ucThh eis intie rt· or wings of several are ro- P. machaon L' . p the p d L ' 10 e~ epid. de Fra·n' ce, • Ig ra1n d• p or t e-~ueue, Godart, Hist. Nat striped with black; inferio;· wln 2. \Vwgs yellow, spotted and blue spots near the posterior gs p_rolonged into a tail and with so;he red on the internal anglema~gm, one of them ocelliform. e caterpillar is · ranee. ' fee,ds on the leaves o~~~een c:ith bl:ck rings dotted with red. It fwo other tailed p 'J' rrot, ennel, &c. liriu a, G odart, Ibid. I api 10s are fo d · · 1 un In France the p d ' ' ' 2; and the p • .Ille xanor'( 1) . . po "M ZELIMA, Fab. This subgenus onl d' ' anten ore whi· ch is shoYr teIfrf earnsd f rom Pa pt·1 ·t o proper in the club of th I know two specie mol'e rounded. e ne b h s, one from s , · . a, ot of which are in the 1 e~egal, the other from Gqi- Jean. , 8P end1d collection· of c aun·t De- PARNAsszus, Lat.-Doritia F b , l Whe h . ' a • re t e Inferior al . . to a point and are di ~ pi eVIdently extend above the their antennre is s sunctly triarticulated. The t ~lypeus, taper have a kind f hort, almost ovoid and t . ermmal button of o corne b s ra1ght Th fi of Tthhe ir abdo men. ous oat· shaped sac at th e post.e ri. or ee xtermemal'et s . e caterpillars also I y hke those of the tru ~~ve a retractile tentaculu . . chrysalides is forme~ ~;rho, but the cocoon in whic: t•: the neck The sp . eaves connected by fi1 ey become . ecies are exclu . 1 aments of silk alpme regions of E stve y proper to the AI . . stapn ~e is th e urope and the north of A S.i a. ptSnuec ha nfdo r su. b- . .!lpollo; Papilio .11 tl , m-de France, II' B, u.. 1: po Wo, bL' .; Godart, Hi.st. N at. des L ~ 'd ' • Ite, spotted with black. ,. epi . ' JOUr oceJ- (l) For the remai · . , . cle Panillon g rung spectes, see Godart, lb'd .- · , of Ochr senhe' imeenru s Pam~/·~ !o n. See also, for Eurot p. , and tl le E ncyc. M6thod F , contmu db ean spec· h ., arti'• . or the species of thi e y M. Treitschke. te~ t e excellent work thts country, see thew s genus and of those Le ido . doptera of the United ;~:tof Messrs B_ois-Duval a~d :::: m general that inhabit VoL. IV.-X es, now betng published in ~ari~e ~:~~~~the Lepi· |
