

V 



BUTTERFLIES IN GENERAL. 



" "What more felicitie can fall to creature 



Than to enjoy delight with libertie, 



And to be lord of all the workes of nature, 



To reigue in the aire from th'earthe to highest skyc. 



To feed on flowers and weedes of glorious feature." 



WORDSWORTH has apostrophized a Butterfly as "Historian of 

 his infancy/' and thousands must have felt, with the poet, 

 that at sight of Butterflies the events of childhood have come 

 fresh to memory, and they have seemed to look again upon 

 the pages of opening life, those sunny pages which the blue 

 and crimson, gold and silver, of the Butterfly's wing, have 



