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SCIENTIFIC WORKS. 
25. 
POPULAR BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY ; 
comprising a familiar and technical description of the Insects most common 
to the British Isles. 
By MARIA E,. CATLOW. 
en 
Arranged in twelve chapters, each being the Entomological lesson for themonth. 
APRIL. 
“THE sunshine of this variable, though often delightful month, calls 
many of our insects into being; several of the early white Butterflies may 
be seen flitting about, rejoicing us, as harbingers of spring, and sipping the 
sweets of the few flowers now in bloom; the less delicate, but more brilliant 
Beetle attracts our attention, as it runs swiftly from our path, or flies 
heavily during a warm evening with its peculiar humming sound; the 
elegant Dragon Fly emerges from the watery bed in which it has passed 
the first stage of its existence, and hovers over the element it has so lately 
quitted, as though unwilling to leave its native home to try new scenes ; 
and though ; 
Spring is but the child 
Of churlish winter, in her froward moods 
Discovering much the temper of her sire, 
yet she sends us many of her ‘flying gems’ as precursors of her abundant 
fertility, when the sun shall have tempered still more the bleak winds of 
March.” 
In one vol. royal 16mo, with sixteen plates of figures. Price 7s. plain; 
10s. 6d. coloured. 
