Ent. [ad. mod.L. Lepidoptera (see next).]. One of the Lepidoptera.
1828. in Webster.
1863. Dana, Geol., 420, note. Lepidopters have large wings covered with minute scales; as the Butterfly and Moth.
1881. Elwes, trans. A. de S. Pinto’s How I crossed Africa, I. v. 120. This gigantic lepidopter, when young, feeds upon the grasses and is then easily caught.
