CONTENTS 



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DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS, 



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, Lycana Phlceas, 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, Thecla 

 Quercus, to the left and the Silver-washed Fritillary, Argynnis Paphia, 

 above. In the centre is the 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 Rapes ; 

 over that, a little to the left, is the Meadow Brown, Hipparchia Janira, 

 and uppermost upon the flowers is the Common Copper, Lycana Phlceas 

 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 



