Books about North American Butterflies 



of a number of others which might be mentioned, and to sub- 

 scribe for such of them as are still being published. 



There are a number of works upon general entomology, con- 

 taining chapters upon the diurnal lepidoptera, which may be con- 

 sulted with profit. Among the best of these are the following: 

 "A Guide to the Study of Insects," by A. S. Packard, Jr., M. D. 

 (Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1883, pp. 715, 8vo); "A Text- 

 book of Entomology," by Alpheus S. Packard, M. D., etc. (The 

 Macmillan Company, New York, 1898, pp. 729, 8vo) ; "A Man- 

 ual for the Study of Insects," by John Henry Comstock (Comstock 

 Publishing Company, Ithaca, New York, 1895, pp. 701, 8vo). 



HUGO'S "FLOWER TO BUTTERFLY" 



" Sweet, live with me, and let my love 

 Be an enduring tether; 

 Oh, wanton not from spot to spot, 

 But let us dwell together. 



lt You 've come each morn to sip the sweets 

 With which you found me dripping, 

 Yet never knew it was not dew, 

 But tears, that you were sipping. 



11 You gambol over honey meads 

 Where siren bees are humming ; 

 But mine the fate to watch and wait 

 For my beloved's coming. 



" The sunshine that delights you now 

 Shall fade to darkness gloomy; 

 You should not fear if, biding here, 

 You nestled closer to me. 



" So rest you, love, and be my love, 

 That my enraptured blooming 

 May fill your sight with tender light, 

 Your wings with sweet perfuming. 



u Or, if you will not bide with me 

 Upon this quiet heather, 

 Oh, give me wing, thou beauteous thing, 

 That we may soar together." 



Eugene Field, 



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