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opened at pleasure. Of the passengers seated near the prow, one lias 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- 

 nessa Atalanta, and to the left the Common Blue, Polyommatus Alexis, 

 both exhibiting; their under-vving painting. The Butterfly descending 

 towards them is the Common Copper, Lycfcna phi a as. For illustrations 

 of other species treated of in this essay, see the Frontispiece . . . 302 



In her hours of supposed privacy '. 



The Painted-Lady Butterfly, Cynthia Cardui, whose Memoirs deserve a 

 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 ;" 



(jf equal application to the summer-day llutterer of fashion, and this, 

 her prototype of the insect world, the Cynthia of the Thistle, upon 

 which plant she loves to regale as a spiny caterpillar, before putting 

 on her butterfly attire 320 



