Butterflies and Moths (British)Furneaux, William S.
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Butterflies and Moths (British)
Furneaux, William S.
Butterflies -- Great Britain; Moths -- Great Britain
The table forming Appendix I contains the names of _all_ the British
butterflies and larger moths, and shows their division into _Sections_,
_Tribes_, _Families_, and _Genera_. This table is the result of most
careful study on the part of leading entomologists, and shows how, in
their opinion, the insects can best be arranged to show their relation
to one another; and you cannot do better than adopt the same order in
your collection.
RHOPALOCERA
PAPILIONIDAE _Euchlo[:e]_ NYMPHALIDAE
_Papilio_ O O O _Argynnis_
O O O O O
O O O O O
O O O O O
Machaon Rapae Cardamines Edusa O
Selene
PIERIDAE O _Leucophasia_ O
_Aporia_ O O O O
O O O v. Helice O
O O Sinapis O
Crataegi Napi _Gonopteryx_ O
_Colias_ O Euphrosyne
_Pieris_ O O O
O O O O O
O Daplidice O O Latona
O O Rhamni
O Hyale
Brassicae
Complete label lists can be purchased, printed on one side of the paper
only. These, when cut up, supply you with neat labels for your
specimens.
If you intend to study the British _Lepidoptera_ as completely as
possible, you may as well start at once with a sufficiently extensive
cabinet, and arrange all the labels of your list before you introduce
the insects. You will thus have a place provided ready for each specimen
as you acquire it, and the introduction of species obtained later on
will not compel you to be continually moving and rearranging the
drawers.
Probably the number of blank spaces will at first suggest an almost
hopeless task, but a few years of careful searching and rearing will
give you heart to continue your interesting work.
Arrange all the insects in perpendicular rows. Put the names of each
section, tribe, family, and genus _at the head_ of their respective
divisions, and the names of the species below each insect or series of
insects. The opposite plan, in which the circles represent the insects
themselves, will make this clear.
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