. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . atural affinities, has entirely arisen fromignorance of its structure. At a time when minute andobscure Coleoptera are submitted to the most delicatedissection, under powerful magnifiers, the Lepidopte:; \,not only the most striking and splendid of all insects, butthe pre-eminent type of the Annulosa, have been compara-tively neglected. We cannot otherwise accou
. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . atural affinities, has entirely arisen fromignorance of its structure. At a time when minute andobscure Coleoptera are submitted to the most delicatedissection, under powerful magnifiers, the Lepidopte:; \,not only the most striking and splendid of all insects, butthe pre-eminent type of the Annulosa, have been compara-tively neglected. We cannot otherwise account for this,but by remembering that the influence of fashion isuniversal, and that she is always followed by the exclusive devotion however, to one order, is highlydetrimental to the study of the natural system ; or with somany profound Entomologists who have gone before us, itwould not have been left for us to make known the fact, tlmtthe sub-family , represents the sub-family Harpa-linse, (Harpalidae, Auct.) And that this analogy is notoidy demonstrable by the peculiar construction of theirlibive, but by the parallel relations and by tin- circularaffinities of the Coleoptera and the IjEPIDOPTERa. L E LLTJS s. Sw l?.0 L E 1 L (J S Emerald Butterfly. Specific wings six tailed,- anal angle with a large flame-coloured space, varied with black spots; tails unequal*whiteish. Papilio Rhipheus. Cramer, Vol. 2, page 193, pi. 3S5,fig. A. D. That the natural affinities of this superb and highlyinteresting- group of insects should be no longer a matterof doubt, we are induced to deviate, for the first time, frombur usual practice. On this and the next plate we havecopied two figures of insects which we have never seen, forthe purpose of bringing- them immediately before the eye ofthe entomologist, and of clearing up some remarkable factsconcerning- them. The first of these is taken from Cramer■, who calls itPap. Rhi
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