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them, according to their various tribes and families, grand 

 distinctions not only of dress but of manners also ; besides 

 which, every individual has, we doubt not, a character of its 

 own. 



Thoughts on Butterflies always bring with them thoughts 

 on flowers. We have viewed them already in some of their 

 mutual relations ; but under this, their combined aspect, they 

 are both so doubly pleasant to look upon, that we must trace 

 here a few of their corresponding features, some of them 

 perhaps for a second time. Flowers seem, as it were, to 

 impart a portion of their own characteristics to all things that 

 frequent them. This is peculiarly exemplified in the Butterfly, 

 which must be regarded, par excellence, as the Insect of 

 Mowers, and a Flower-like Insect, gay and innocent, made 

 after a floral pattern, and coloured after floral hues. But even 

 with the insect families which are usually dark and repulsive, 

 that, for instance, of Cockroaches, which are for the most part 

 black or brown, the few species which resort to flowers are 

 gaily coloured. What a contrast also between the dark loath- 

 some in- door Spider, and their prettily painted, green and red, 

 and white and yellow brethren of the field and garden, which 

 seek their prey among the flowers ; while more striking still, is 

 the difference between the wingless disgusting plague of cities, 

 and the elegantly formed, brightly coloured, winged Bugs, 

 which are common frequenters of the parterre. Whether this 

 be imputed to the effect of light, or assigned poetically to 



