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Show 1B2 INSECTA. simply dentated. It bas been observed that the nerves of the supe~ rior ones are stt•ongly inflated at their origin(l). N YMPHA.LIS, Lat. Similar to Biblis in the legs, but with shorter inferior palpi. It is only by the elongation of the club of the antennre that this sulr genus is distinguished from Vanessa. The caterpillars, however, are different; independently of their having but few ~pines or fleshy prominentes, they are somewhat attenuated towards their posterior extremity, which is slightly forked. These Lepidoptera are usually very highly ornamented, and their flight is elevated and rapid. Several beautiful species inhabit France. Such are those designated in small groups by amateurs, by the names of Syl· vains and Mars; the males of the latter are decorated with changeable colours. To this subgenus belongs another beauti· ful species, also indigenous to France, called the Jason-Papilio Jason, L. The form and size of the club of the antennre vary a little, as well as the relative proportions of the wings; this bas caused the formation of some other subgenera, but their characters are very equivocal. The species which approximate most to Biblis, one of which is the Sylvain ccenobite of Engrammelle, form the genus Neptis of Fabricius. Of those which are most removed from the preceding ones either by their antennre or the inferior wings, ~nd which present tails like certain species of the Equites of Linnreus, we will mention the Jason already quoted(2). MoRPHO, Fab. Differing from Nymphalis in the alm0st filiform antennre, slightly and gradually enlarged towards the extremity. All the species are peculiar to South America, and are re· · markable for their size, colours, and the ocellated spots on the inferior surface of their wings. Linnreus placed several of them among his Greeks(s). (1) See the same works. (2) See Godart, Hist. Nat. des L~pid. de :France, and his article Papillon oftbe Encyc. Method., genus Nymphale. ($) See the works o.lready quoted. LEP!DOPTER • .\.. 183 Godart has separated from them ' by th e generi. c name of PAVONIA, Those species in which th 0 closed, and where the ~ central cell of the infe . . into an S instead of bei:ost I~ternal nerve of the su er~~or_ wmgs is cies peculiar· ~o th E g stratght or but slightly p r IS curved •• 0 • e • ast Indies · . arcuated. A lhlOr wmgs is extended in the ' lD wh~h the anal angle of the .s~e-t e typ e o f t h e genus AM manner of a t a.l1' the p ph•a· ln&e- f ATHUSIA of F b · · . • 'PPUS i rom the western conf a rictus. All th ' s inferior Palpi in p In~nt. The edge of the second ~ ?thers are . avoma M h JOIDt of th ge~era IS tolerably wide· ;h orp o,, and the other precedin be as Is the case in S ' ese palpt are not stron g su - ceding ones · atyrus, a subgenus very analogo usg ltyo cthoem tp ressed, In the follo · - wo pre- . l wmg subgenera th d" . IS a so closed posteriori Y• e lscoJ.dal cell of th~ inter· . 0 1or wmgs BRAssoLxs, Fab. . W.here the antennre are abr meal club, and the inft . uptl_y terminated by a thick-e yond the clypeus N erlOr palpl are short and do n!d, ob~o-h • ear the · not extend b t e males is a I · . mner margin of th · fi . e.... ongitudmal fissure covered . h ~ lD erlOr wings of Wit haus( 1 ). w EuMENIA, Godart . . here the inferior al . - short distance from rh ?J. ar~ l?nger, and where the form an en· origm; bee antennre, at a extremely elongated club(<>~ ) · Tohmee gradually thicker, an d EURYBIA, Illig. theA pproaches Brassol' . t y are proportionallyIS t h1i0c tkheer shodr tn ess o f the inferiE>r palpi. b orm, elongated ' an d sh. ghtly c~, ravned (3th).e club of th e a~tennre ios' fusui-t {(21)) ES ee 0E ncyc Meth • od., article Pa ·zt Godart, ncyc. Method., Insect., IX 82r on, genus Bra&aolide. . had lost their antennae , ... The only specimens i bre, captured by him . H • M. Poe has sent me n the possession of ( 3 ) m avana some that ar See Encyc. Meth d · . e perfectly en-o 0 , same arttcle. |