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opened at pleasure. Of the passengers seated near the prow, one has a 
nearly similar visor, whilst the female is invested with the features of the 
Boat-Fly,resembling those which form the figure-head of the boat . 301 
17. BUTTERFLIES IN GENERAL. 
Seated to the right of the Dahlia is the beautiful Red Admiral Butterfly, Va- 
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nessa Atalanta, and to the left the Common Blue, Polyommatus Alezis, 
both exhibiting their under-wing painting. The Butterfly descending 
towards them is the Common Copper, Lycena phieas. For illustrations _ 
of other species treated of in this essay, see the Frontispiece . - . 302 
In her hours of supposed privacy. 
Painted-Lady Butterfly, Cynthia Cardui, whose Memoirs deserve 2 
volume to themselves, if only for the moral they teach,— 
“Such mistresses dare never come in rain 
“ For fear their colours should be washed away ;"" 
of equal application to the summer-day flutterer of fashion, and this, 
her prototype of the insect world, the Cynthia of the Thistle, upon 
whieh plant she loves to regale as a spiny caterpillar, before putting 
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ee eas war eiae KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. 
