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Show 184 1NSEC:.:'l'A. SA't'YRtrs, Lat. nd beyo nd the clypeus, are . 1 i as usual, exte 1 'lose edge; where Where the infendor pal ;ave a sharp, dense}.~~~ inflation, or an Presse , an . 1 globu uo strongly com . ted by a htt e ked that the two or termma h remar . the antennre are 1 b Godart as gly inflated at thetr elongated and slender£ t~eu s~periot· wings are stron fi t ervures o . three rs n . d the postenor extre- origm. . naked, ornea rly so, an . t The chrysal '1d es The caterpillars are d into a forked pom .) . b dy is narrowe bercles( 1 • mity of thelr .o l and present do~sal tu h Diurnal Lepidoptera are bifid anterlo~ y, this first sectlOD of t : distinct joints, but We will :er~~~=~ethe inferior palpi ·h~~e ~o:::ed with scales than with those m ' k d or much less thtc yf h tarsi are very small, 1 ost na e ' h oks o t e . . the last a ~ and where the 0 h recedmg ones, r t The dl•S CO•l dal cell of the mfertor t e p t 11 or scarcely, sa len . a n. d no.t ao ae n' posteriorly. ve the form o f 0 m· scl·. The wmgs ~s p r illars are oval, or ha th and always fixed by a Their cate p hort contracted, smoo ' f Papilio proper, the chrysalides are s ' the body, like those o d hat traverses . silken ban t . . th division of the Ru· Pierides, Stc.(2) d h m among his Plebel, 1D e ymous section of . place t e in a homon Lmnreus . . s-Entom. Syst.- f M de Lamarck. Fa· ricolre, anc~ FabTr~lU form the genus .!Jrgu~ ~ • everal genera, the his Hespertre. ey Gloss.-divided lt mto s l . ately-Syst. bricius u tlm h. h demand revision· . solid globuliform, characters of w lC terminate, as usual, m a ' Sometimes th.e an tenn::e . s are much clavate inftattOn. . 1 s the two anterior leg or least thelr rna e ' b enus In some, or at They compose the su g shorter than the others. ERYOINA, Lat.' And are pecu liar to America( 3 ). Method.,' same artt·c 1 e , genus ( · N t des Lt~; p"l d · de Fr., and Encyc. · te 1) See H1st. a · ght to tel'JDlll& Satyre. . t this view of the subJ. ect, t h es~ sucbhg wenaes rath oeu arrangemeP t \Yt (2) A~cordm~ o should begin with Satyrus. u - this section, whtch . or1.g 1·n a.lly adopte~dth. d arh. cle p apt' llon , genus Erycme. (3) Encyc. Mt; 0 ., LEPIDOPTERA. 185 ln the others all the legs are alike in both sexes. M YRINA, Fa b. The Myrinre are distinguished from the following subgenera by the remarkable elongation and projection of theit· inferior pal pi( 1 ). Those species in which these organs do not extend considerably beyond the clypeus form the subgenus PoLYOMMATus, So called because the wings of most of them are marked with small ocellated spots. Several species have been collectively designated by the name of Petits porte-queue. The most common: in the environs of Paris is the P . .!:llexia; Papilio .!:llexis, Hiibn., LX, 292-294; .!:lrgU8 bleu, Geoff.; Godart, Hist. Nat. des Lepid., &c., I, ii, sect. 3. Superior .surface of the wings of the male azure blue, changing to a delicate violet, with a small black streak along the posterior margin, and a very white fringe; that of the female, brown, with a range of fulvous spots near the posterior margin, and a black line on the middle of the superior ones. The inferior surface of the wings is nearly the same in the two sexes; it is grey, with a range of fulvous spots enclosed between two lines of black points and streaks near the posterior margin; we may also observe some black points margined with white. Its caterpillar lives on the Onobrychys, Broom, &c. Its colours are various(2). Other Lepidoptera of the same division present antennre of a truly insulated form. Those of one of the sexes of the BARBIOORNis, Go- (1) Ibid. Fabricius has established several other genera in this division, which I have not yet sufficiently examined. Certain species from South America resemble Pyrales in their superior wings, which are arcuated exteriorly at base. The club of the antennz also presents various modifications which may serve as a ground of division; but we should have a great number of species, and be particularly well acquainted with their metamorphoses. (2) For the other species indigenous to France, see Lat., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XVII, p. 79, Pap. pltbeienJ~,• Godart, Hist. Nat. des L~pid. de France, his pTilai<bmle.a u Methodique, accompanying that work; and Encyc. Method., article PaVoL. IV.-Y |