X PREFACE. 



Floral, high as this already stands in universal love and 

 admiration. 



To Entomologists, those especially whose pens and re- 

 searches have opened varied paths to their pursuit, little 

 information is offered in the following discursive sketches, 

 yet it is diffidently hoped, that even readers of this descrip- 

 tion may find amusement in an hour of leisure from the 

 inspection of a light and fanciful fabric based upon founda- 

 tions of their own laying. From their intimate acquaintance 

 with the body of the structure the Real they are, at all 

 events, well qualified to appreciate the fitness, if fit, of its 

 allegorical decoration the Ideal. 



