lv INTRODUCTION. 
I wish, in committing these drawings to the public, that they could convey to 
others some of the intense pleasure which the beautiful origmals have given me ; 
that the animus with which they have been traced could be imparted to a kindred 
mind. 
Let us not love and study these exquisite things for themselves alone, but as 
beacons of light to guide us on our heavenly way, and let us love and bless the 
wondrous skill which placed them there, let us think what must be the glory of that 
future which we are promised, when these, the most trivial decorations of a world 
which we are told is but temporal, are so transcendently beautiful. Regarded thus, 
they will possess a power to please which they never possessed before. 
“ There ’s nothing bright, above, below, 
From flowers that bloom to stars that glow, 
But in its light my soul can see 
Some feature of the Deity.” 
For some of the errors which mar the pages of the book (the result of my own 
carelessness) I have to grieve—others were unavoidable, and have only been made 
apparent by the light of increasing acquisitions. 
Ithomia Galita is Hubner’s Nereis Cymo. 
Ithomia Sisera is Hubner’s Nereis Doto. 
Ithomia Vallonia (13) is probably only a variety of Hubner’s N. Ninonia. 
Ithomia Hezia (21) is a Mechanitis. 
Ithomia Cesleria (41) is the female of I. Avella (g7), and must change her 
name. 
Ithomia Virginia (54) must be called Virginiana, Virginia having been used 
at (18). 
Ithomia Telesto (56) is (I believe) Guérin’s H. Annetta. (Icon. du Regne 
Animal). 
Ithomia Attalia is possibly the female of H. Cyrene of Latreille (Humboldt 
and Bonpland), which I have never seen. 
Catagramma Parima (3) is a variety of Guérin’s C. Hesperis. (Icon. du 
Regne Animal). 
Catagramma Eluina (30) is not sufficiently glossed with blue—when seen with 
its head to the light, it is one of the most beautiful of the genus. 
