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Show 180 INSECTA. with spines or fleshy and hairy tubercles, compose the subgenera CETHOSIA, Fab., and ARGYNNIS, MELIT<EA, Fab. In the first, seve· rat species of which have elevated and elongated wings, the in· ferior palpi are distant throughout their whole length, the hooks of the tarsi are simple, and the club of the antennre is oblong( 1 ). In the second it is short and abrupt; the hooks of the tarsi are uniden· tated, and the inferior palpi are only distant at their extremity. The inferior wings are ft·equently round. Some-.flrgynnis, Fab.-have nacrell spots on the under part of their wings. Their caterpillars are furnished with spines, two on the neck longer than the rest. Those of the others......:Melitrea, Fab.-have little hairy tubercles; the wings are spotted like a chess· board, and the nacre is replaced by yello,v, a _ circumstance which sometimes occurs in the preceding ones(2). Those in which the inferior pal pi arc contiguous throughout their whole length, terminated almost insensibly in a point, and strongly compressed, form five other subgenera. V .ANESSA, Fa b. The Vanessre are removed from the following ones by their an· tenore, abruptly terminated by a short turbinated or ovoid button. Their caterpillars are derisely spinous. V. morio; Papilio .flntiopa, L.; Godart, Hi st. Nat. des Lepid. de France, I, 5, 1. Wings angular, of a deep purple·black, with a yellowish or whitiiSh band on the posterior margin, and a suite of blue spots above. Its caterpillar is blackish, spinous, and has a range of red, square, divided spots along the back. It feeds on the leaves of the Birch, Poplar and Willow, where it lives in society. It appears at two periods. V. Jo; Papilio Io, L.; Godart, Ibid., I, 5, 2. 'Vings angular and dentated, reddish-ful vous above with a large ocellated spot on each; that of the superior wings reddish in the centre and sut·rounded with a yellowish circle; the one on the inferior blackish, surrounded by a grey circle, and enclosing bluish spots; under surface of the wings blackish. Its caterpillar is black, dotted with white, and covered with hairy spines. On the Nettle. (1) See the works $1ready quoted. (2) Idem. · LEPIDOPTERA, ,... P: d • • 181 . . car uz, Papilio cardui L • ., bW mgs dentated,. a:....J ove red' an.d, God. art, Ibid. ' I , 5 , sect. 2. en.eath marbled with grey, . ello varted with black and white; blutsh spots on their margi~ wand brown; five ocellated and The caterpillar lives soJit . brownish with y-eiJow s t r1. peas rya nodn the Th.i stle. It is somet1' mes verse yellow bands • It 1. s s' pm. ous omeTt imes russet with t tans-appears towards the close of s. he perfect Insect only I V. .!ltalan_ta; Papilio Atalanst:~~~r. T • ' 6, 1. W mgs den tatecl . ' 1. Vulcatn, God art Ibi'd ve rsed. b y a beautiful re'd sobmanedw hat an~u 1a r; above blac' k, tra.-, su?ertor ones; marbled with va/ a~d With white spots on the fhe caterpiiJar is bl k . Ious colours beneath. 1 ac ' spmous d co oured lines on each side I ? an ~as a suite of lemon-t~ e seeds, and remains hidd~n t h~es on the Nettle, prefers t e leaves, which it rolls u on t e top of the plant amon The same divt' . . p and secures with silk g . Slon mcJudes v . • mon m France, such as the V. ariOus other species very com- L. ), the 17. urticre (P. urt' L. polychloroa ( Papilio polych' L ) Th zcre, .), the V. l ,oroa, . . e chrysalis of the latte . c. a 'bum ( P. c. album In ~:~:n fa~e or ~he mask of a S;;:(~r)~ a rude resemblance to ~ our •ollowmg sub gated club, or are almost filf:onera the antennre terminate in an el The c t . rm. on-a erptllars are naked or present but few s . . pmes. , LIBYTHEA, Fab. Where the males onl . resemblin y have the two ante . in the ma!nae;ort of tippet. The inferior :110; le~s very short and I ( ) of a rostrum. Th . ~ p proJect considerabl ar 2 • e supertor wings are very anguY-BxnLis.-. Melanitia F b Wh ' a. ere those palp' d . I are also 1 an shghtly curved at t . onger than the head but are short and fold d . heir extremity; where the ~ more obtuse much smaller clube I;h bot~ sexes, and the antenn:~ ant~rior legs . e wmgs are also . ermmate in a · proportiOnally WI'd er and Pa(n1 )'l lo'Fno r the other ape . :r' , genus Vane&e. Ctes, see Go d art, lbt. d., and the E (2} See the works al d ncyc. M6thod.' article rea Y quoted. |