Excerpt from The Lepidoptera of the British Islands, Vol. 1: A Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species Indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, Their Preparatory States, Habits, and Localities; Rhopalocera Lepidoptera (singular Lepidopteron - lopis scale, pteron wing) are those insects which are clothed with scales, as distinguished from those which have hairy wings, or are devoid of covering; and although some few moths will be found to have the wings bare of scales, and others occur in which the females have no wings at all, the scales will still be found on heads, bodies, legs, and even on the margins Of the wings, when present. Insect-s of this order are never provided with jaws nor with stings, and indeed have in the perfect state no effective means of defence. 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.