il CONTENTS. 
history of the fugacions Butterfly, as typifying the flight of the immor- 
tal soul, stands foremost for clearness, for exactitude, for beauty, and for 
Solemn import. 
Citle-Wigqnette, 
So issue forth the Seasons, 
First we have-Wrxter in his merriest mood, represented by the Cricket, 
bedecked with Christmas holly, and alive with fun and jollity. By his 
right hand he holds the Brimstone Butterfly, emblem of SpRiNnG, prim- 
rose of papilions in habits and in hue. Beneath, the jocund Grasshopper 
linked to the above by a vernal wreath, figures the bright SumMER 
and in the glowing Peacock Butterfly, rich in her velvet train as 
the autumnal flowers she frequents, we welcome AuTUMN, bearing the 
ripe sheaf and presenting her merry associate with the fruit of the vine. 
Sanuarp. 
1. THE CRICKET. INTRODUCTORY. Page. 
“The House Cricket, Acheta domestica, gaining access to the milk-jug by a 
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Episodes, then, they shall be called. 
Symbolic portrait of the author in his character of the Cricket, Acheta do- 
mestica, selecting a title for his lucubrations . . . . ... =. XOWI 
2. THE POINTS OF OUR HOBBY. 
The Cricket mounted on the back of a magnified May-Fly, Ephemera vul- 
gata, in search of entomological subjects . . . . . .... &J2 
To the end of time this will carry us. 
Emblems of riches, rank, and the pomps and venities of life outweighed in 
the balance by the author’s hobby of Entomology under the figure 
Oa Mayelly oe a ee 
3. FLIES IN WINTER, AND A FLY LEAF. 
A magnified representation of the House Fly, Musca domestica, crawling up 
