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CHAPTER XII. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



If the insects whose remarkable habits we have just 

 been considering have long attracted attention from 

 the singular instincts with which they are endowed, 

 those belonging to the Order which will form the 

 subject of the present chapter have proved not less 

 attractive from the beauty of their forms and colours 

 and the grace of their movements. 



The Lepidoptera commence the series of Haustellate 

 insects,, or those in which the mouth is constructed 

 exclusively for suctorial purposes ; for although the 

 Bees, as we have seen, are furnished with a peculiar 

 modification of the labium, enabling them to suck up 

 the sweet juices of flowers, yet their mandibles are 



