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genera and twenty groups ; sonic of them are of enormous size, e. g. 

 Ornithoptera Priamus expands 8.3 inches, and O. Helena 7.6 in. 



Why?— The grand secret of successful collecting, whether by day, dusk, 



dark or dawn, lies in one little word- why? If the beginner, instead of 



clinging persistently to the delusion that the more ground he gets over the 

 better will be the sport, would just ask himself, "Why, here?*' Whenever 

 he captures a decent insect, and would insist on a satisfactory reply or else 

 a give-it-up from his inner man before leaving the spot, we should soon 

 have a race of real insect hunters. I fancy I hear some one say : " Why, 

 any fool knows that!" Exactly so ; and "any fool 1 ' will doubtless keep 

 up his character for stupidity by blundering on and neglecting to act on it. 



Where there is one there are more, is true in a general sense : hence the 

 greater reason why the above interrogatory should be answered on the 

 spot. " Why?" here asks a string of questions : Whence from ? Whither 

 bound? Was it a female on the mission of ovipositing? — a male in quest 

 of a virgin female ?— fluttering about its food-plant? — on its way to some 

 neighboring attraction ? — on the wing of pleasure, enjoying the hot sun- 

 shine, the cool shade, or some other congenial atmospheric condition ?— 

 its proper time of flight? — seeking a place of rest? — or, was it disturbed, 

 and in its flight flew it knew not where?— was it blown by the wind against 

 its will? — under the influence of light? — or after somebody's sugar? — Dr. 



Knag.g's ("The Lepidopterist's Guide,'' p. 78.) 



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