Episodes of Insect Life. 
CONTENTS 
AND 
DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Reem 
Frontispiece. 
_ BUTTERFLIES IN GENERAL. 
Various species just risen and bursting from their chrysalidan shrouds, mount 
towards the skies or repose upon everlasting flowers. 
The lowest Butterfly to the left is the Peacock, Vanessa Io, that above is the 
Common Copper, Lycena Phiaas, the next above is the Common Blue, 
Polyommatus Alexis, and that to the left is the same, showing its 
under-wing painting. Above these, upon the sprig of flowers, is the Lady 
of the Woods, Anthocharis Cardamines, and over this to the right is the 
Brimstone, Gonepteryx Rhamni, having the Hair-Streak Purple, Theela 
Quercus, to the left and the Silver-washed Fritillary, Argynnis Paphia, 
above. In the centre isthe beautiful Swallow-Tail, Papilio Machaon, 
to the right below is the Red Admiral, Vanessa Atalanta; perched 
above, showing its under-wing, is the small Garden White, Pontia Rape ; 
over that, a little to the left, is the Meadow Brown, Hipparchia Janira, 
and uppermost upon the flowers is the Common Copper, Lycena Phileas 
exhibiting its under-wing. Suspended to the branches beneath are 
numerous chrysalides, one of which exhibits the small Tortoise-shell 
Butterfly recently emerged. 
To the symbolic meaning of this picture it is scarcely needful to point, for in 
the Book of Nature, so truly described to be a Book of Emblems, the 
