lepidoptera

• All those people can tell you whether they are lepidoptera or steptopotera, but as for telling how you can get rid of them or how they get away from you when you strike them—why Linnæus knew as little of that as John Foy the idiot did. —  AHMM, April 2002
• Caley Bard announced that he was going to have his hair cut and then go to the museum where the lepidoptera were said to be above average. —  Clutch of Constables—Ngaio Marsh—Roderick Allyn 25
• Now I come to think of it, I hardly know whether to refer it to the lepidoptera or not. —  'That Very Mab'
• That cold, clear, incisive power of brain which on a time had made Slippy McGee the greatest cracksman in America, was, trained and disciplined in a better cause, to make John Flint in later years an international authority upon lepidoptera, an observer to whom other observers deferred, a naturalist whose dictum settled disputed points. —  Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
• Gourdon also possessed a collection of lepidoptera,--a word which led society to hope for monstrosities, and to say, when it saw them, "Why, they are only butterflies!" —  Sons of the Soil

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