

NOTE 



The followdng papers are a small selection, for 

 the general reader, of those published in the au- 

 thor's " Butterflies of the Eastern United States 

 and Canada," — a work so costly as to reach rela- 

 tively few, and one which was mainly addressed to 

 the specialist. 



As far as possible, these papers have been di- 

 vested of technical details and in many cases revised 

 or extended, to bring- them up to date. Each is 

 wholly independent of the others ; but though they 

 do not pretend to form a consistent whole, it is 

 believed that the perusal of these fragments wiU 

 show, as well as a more elaborate treatise, that 

 there is as much to be learned from the study of 

 the lives and structure of our own every-day but- 

 terflies as can be gleaned in any other branch of 

 natural history. 



To gain for our butterflies a deeper interest and 

 closer attention on the part of the observing public 

 is the simple object of the present volume. 



Cambridge, Mass., April 13, 1895. 



