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Show INSECT A.. 186 . f the ZEPHYRtus, Dalm., (1) Those 0 dart are setaceous and plumous .l bular joints separated r1k e t he ' twelve g 0 are terminated by ten or d f beads of a rosary ( 2) · . rnal Lepl'd op tera is com.p ose o T d section of the Dtu 0 2. he secon . 'bire have tw pairs of spmes. , one spec1. es .m w h'1 c h the postenorh u hove· sue h also is the case . m thel at theu. · extremt· ty ' and theT oht eitn· fae rior 'w .m gs are usuallyf hor~t zonta two following families. : f their antennre very o ten orms a when at rest, an d the extremity o d strongly boo k e d p oint. h' ch however but f ew are yet kno. wnc,· betnh Their caterpillars, of ;v I emely thin cocoon of Sllk m e leaves together, and spm an e:~~rysa.lides; the latter are smooth or 't ) in which they become caVl y , · f L' without angular elevatiOn~. e Plebei, Urbicolre o mnreus, or These Lepidoptera fot m th Fabt·icius united them to ~rgus the Papillons estropih of Geoff~oy.but we must also refer to thts sec· b the generic name of ~esper~~ called pages by the amateu~s, of tion certain exotic Leptdopt~ ' t hitherto been well ascertamed: hich the original habitat h.a. no These various Lepidoptera lead swu ch are the Ur amE· £ o f Fabnc1us. to our second family. . They compose t w0 subgenera. HESI'ERIA, Fab. . . wl'lich the termination of b• lre of Lmnreus m . r . 0 the P. ptebei ur 1.co . 1avate and the 101ertor r . . 1 globuhform or c ' · 1 h ntennre is d1stmct Y ed with scales auter10r Y· t e a d d densely cover d 1 · are short, broa , an CL 2 x Wings dentate , pa p1 b • Rres Insect. ' ' • . h H. malvre, Fa • ' ., d d speckled with whtte, t e b e spotte an . r · blackish-brown a ov ' . f the latter colour; lnlertor . rked With spots o d . 'I posterior margm ma . h ey with irregular an stmtar surf ace. of the wings greems -gr spots. . . bl k head and 1 ted grey w1th a ac ' The caterpillar lS e onga , fi ' . g which is narrowed, . the neck or rst rm . four yellow pomts on 1 of this subgenus. It hves on a character peculiar to t?e 1:::: togeth'er and there underg~es the Malvacere, bends thelr 1' • black but sprinkled With its metamorph os.l s. The chrysa lS lS bluish(3). . ------------:-~~_:------~ta~b-,li:s"hedonfalse (1) Encyc. Method., Insect., IX' p. 705, a genus perhaps es antenna:. . . f the Urbicok; (2) Dalm. Anal. Entom., 102. Syst., divunon o (3) For th' e other spect. es, se e Fab ., Entom. LEPIDOPTERA. 187 URANIA, Fa b. Where the antennre, at first filiform, become attenuated or setaceous at the extremity, and where the inferior palpi are elongated and slender, with the second joint strongly compressed, and the la~t much smaller, almost cylindrical .a nd naked(l). FAMILY II. CREPUSCULARIA. In this family, near the origin of the external margin of their inferior wings, we observe a rigid squamous seta, in the form of a spine or bristle, which passes into a hook on. the under surface of the superior wings, maintaining them, when at ;rest, in a horizontal or inclined position(2). This character is also visible in the ensuing family, but the Crepuscularia are distinguished from the latter by their antennre, which form an elongated club, either prism-atic or fusiform. The caterpillars have always sixteen feet. The chrysalides are destitute of the points or angles observed in most of those of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, and are usually enclosed in a cocoon or concealed, either in the earth, or under some body. These Lepidoptera frequently appear only in the morning or evening. They com pose the genus S:PHINX, Lin.-Papillons-Bourdons, De Geer, So named from the attitude of several of the caterpillars, which resembles that of the fabled monster so called. They have received Encyc. Method., article Papillon, genus H~pbie; and the Hist. Nat. des Lepid. de France of Godart. (1) The Pap. riphteua, leilua, Lavinia, Oront~, Fab.; Noctua Patroclua, ejusd. TJle Urania: compose the genera Oyrlimon, Nyctalamon and Sematura of Dalman. See his Prodromus of the Monograph of the genus Castnia, p. 26. (2) In certain Smerintbi, however, according to Godart, they are wanting. • J |