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 THE BUTTERFLIES, DAY-BUTTERFLIES and shut

Lepidoplera, are divided into three groups

which have a knob on the end of their feelers



their

Butterflies

.

Skippers

DUSK-BUTTERFLIES

their fore

.

and

...

.

(though



and hindwings together are the true

.

open lower wings .

(antenna.-),

wings upperside inwards.

Those which open and shut

Those which



some

fly

in

leave

Papilionidce.

.

...

upper wings

day time) which have

....

Hawk

or

are

Hespcrid<.e.

their

(antennas) thickest in the middle, tapering towards each end, shut their wings roorlike over their bodies, upperside outward.

Those with stout bodies and narrow wings are Moths Those with small bodies

shut

half

feelers

and which

Hummingbird SphingiiLc.

.



wings transparent, are Stemborers, Beemoths wings not transparent .

.iES



which h u'e their feelers (antenniv)

tapering to the point,

upper side outwards 8



often feutherlike,

Moths.

and shut

l-'<-riiiJie.

.

/}'>< ni<Lc.

thickest at the base, their

wings

roollike,