X Preface. 



chapter has been added, for the benefit of novices in the 

 study and collection of butterflies and moths. 



Those, for whom fresh air and a certain amount of 

 exercise are essential, can hardly find any more health- 

 giving or light interesting occupation than the practical 

 study of Entomology. 



This study lends an interest to excursions which 

 might otherwise be tedious, and leads the collector into 

 all sorts of beautiful and picturesque unexplored nooks 

 and corners of the Island, which to the ordinary traveller 

 are quite unknown. Many visitors hardly ever extend 

 their wauderings farther than the Carretera (the one 

 high road in Teneriffe), and have no idea of the many 

 beauties to be seen, or of the interest that may be found 

 in studying the Botany, as well as the Entomology, of 

 this most charming of the '* Summer isles of Eden lying 

 in dark-purple spheres of sea." 



All the species and varieties of Teneriffe butterflies, 

 with the exception perhaps of three, are found between 

 the months of November and May ; so that anyone 

 staying there for the winter and spring months may 



