Books about North American Butterflies 



of a number of others which might be mentioned, and to sub- 

 scribe for such of them as are still being published. 



There are a number of works upon general entomology, con- 

 taining chapters upon the diurnal lepidoptera, which may be con- 

 sulted with profit. Among the best of these are the following: 

 "A Guide to the Study of Insects," by A. S. Packard, Jr., M. D. 

 (Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1883, pp. 715, 8vo) ; "A Text- 

 book of Entomology," by Alpheus S. Packard, M. D., etc. (The 

 Macmillan Company, New York, 1898, pp. 729, 8vo) ; "A Man- 

 ual fortheStudy of Insects," by John Henry Comstock (Comstock 

 Publishing Company, Ithaca, New York, 1895, pp. 701, 8vo). 



HUGO'S ''FLOWER TO BUTTERFLY'' 



" Sweet, live with me, and let my love 

 Be an enduring tether; 

 Oh, wanton not from spot to spot, 

 But let us dwell together. 



" You 've come each morn to sip the sweets 

 With which you found me dripping, 

 Yet never knew it was not dew, 

 But tears, that you were sipping. 



" You gambol over honey meads 

 Where siren bees are humming ; 

 But mine the fate to watch and wait 

 For my beloved's coming. 



" The sunshine that delights you now 

 Shall fade to darkness gloomy; 

 You should not fear if, biding here, 

 You nestled closer to me. 



" So rest you, love, and be my love, 

 That my enraptured blooming 

 May fill your sight with tender light, 

 Your wings with sweet perfuming. 



" Or, if you will not bide with me 

 Upon this quiet heather, 

 Oh, give me wing, thou beauteous thing, 

 Thst we may soar together." 



Eugene Field. 



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