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British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native SpeciesColeman, W. S. (William Stephen)

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British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species

Name: British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species
Author: Coleman, W. S. (William Stephen)

Coleman, W. S. (William Stephen)

Butterflies -- Great Britain

I have in this little work followed the system of classification used in
the _public_ collection of British butterflies at the British Museum, which
seemed to me more intelligible and natural when applied to our very limited
number of butterflies, than did the system of Doubleday adopted in the
great world-wide collection which exists in the private entomological room
of the British Museum.

The following table gives the first-mentioned arrangement of all the
British species under their respective genera, sub-families, and families.
The most authentic of the _reputed_ species are also here inserted in their
proper places.

  Fam. PAPILIONIDÆ.
    Sub-fam. PAPILIONIDI.
      PAPILIO Machaon.
        --    Podalirius.
    Sub-fam. PIERIDI.
      GONEPTERYX Rhamni.
      COLIAS Edusa.
        --   Hyale.
      APORIA Cratægi.
      PIERIS Brassicæ.
        --   Rapæ.
        --   Napi.
        --   Daplidice.
      EUCHLOE Cardamines.
      LEUCOPHASIA Sinapis.

  Fam. NYMPHALIDÆ.
    Sub-fam. SATYRIDI.
      ARGE Galathea.
      LASIOMMATA Egeria.
          --     Megæra.
      HIPPARCHIA Semele.
          --     Janira.
          --     Tithonus.
          --     Hyperanthus.
  {59}
      EREBIA Blandina.
          --     Ligea.
          --     Cassiope.
      CÆNONYMPHA Davus.
          --     Pamphilus.
    Sub-fam. NYMPHALIDI.
      LIMENITIS Sybilla.
      APATURA Iris.

    Sub-fam. VANESSIDI.
      CYNTHIA Cardui.
      VANESSA Atalanta.
          --   Io.
          --   Antiopa.
          --   Polychloros.
          --   Urticæ.
      GRAPTA C. Album.

    Sub-fam. ARGYNNIDI.
      ARGYNNIS Paphia.
          --    Aglaia.
          --    Adippe.
          --    Lathonia.
          --    Euphrosyne.
          --    Selene.
          --    Dia.
      MELITÆA Cinxia.
          --   Athalia.
          --   Artemis.

  Fam. ERYCINIDÆ.
    NEMEOBIUS Lucina.

  Fam. LYCÆNIDÆ.
    THECLA Betulæ.
      --   Pruni.
      --   W. Album.
      --   Quercus.
      --   Rubi.
    CHRYSOPHANUS Phlæas.
        --      Chryseis.
        --      Dispar.
    POLYOMMATUS Boeticus.
        --      Argiolus.
        --      Alsus.
        --      Acis.
        --      Arion.
        --      Corydon.
        --      Adonis.
        --      Alexis.
        --      Ægon.
        --      Agestis.
        --      Artaxerxes.

  Fam. HESPERIDÆ.
    PYRGUS Alveolus.
    NISIONADES Tages.
    STEROPES Paniscus.
    PAMPHILA Actæon.
      --     Linea.
      --     Sylvanus.
      --     Comma.

It will be seen by the above list that seventy species are given as
British. Of these, five species, viz. _Papilio Podalirius_, _Erebia Ligea_,
_Argynnis Dia_, _Chrysophanus Chryseis_, and _Polyommatus Boeticus_, have
been so rarely taken as to be refused a place among the _regular_ denizens
of our island. So that we can only reckon up the small number of
_sixty-five species of true British butterflies_.

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British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species

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