62 NAMES OF BUTTERFLIES 



from different languages which I made use of in 

 my "• Butterflies of the Eastern United States." 

 Murray in his New English dictionary gives vari- 

 ous extracts showing the early use of this name, 

 the earliest in the Anglo-Saxon being as far back 

 as 1000 by Aelfric. Chaucer gives it in another 

 form : " Swich talkyng is nat worth a boterflye." 



