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Excerpt from The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising Their Generic Characters, a Notice of Their Habits and Transformations, and a Catalogue of the Species of Each Genus Obs. The names printed in capitals are those of the Families; those in ordinary type are the Genera adepted in the text; those with a prefixed are Synonyms; and those printed in italics are sub-genera, or named Sections of Genera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.