The Angel- Wing Butterflies 



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black, but the rest of the body is clothed with an 

 orange-colored garment. Along about the first of 

 June you may find the chrysalis (Fig. 155). 



THE ANGEL- WING BUTTERFLIES 



This is a pretty name which I quote from 

 Mr. J. H. Conistock. It is a pity that more of 

 our butterflies are 

 not named in this 

 style, but at the 

 same time, accord- 

 ing to the best of 

 our information, it ifHXETON" 

 is not the angels 



but the fairies who jtsMf ^*^^ 



sport butterfly /Ss\ 



wings. We may 

 be wrong in this 

 because, to be honest, we have never, to our knowl- 

 edge, seen either of them. 



But as an artist the author has many times 

 drawn pictures of angels and, taking his authority 

 from other artists, he has always hitched birds' 

 wings under the angel's shoulder-blades, not be- 

 cause he thought angels needed wings but because 

 the wings ac'C decorative and symbols of the angel's 



