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MARBLED WHITE. 



HALF-JIOURNER. M.VRMORESS. 

 PLATE XIII. 



Hipparchia Galathea, Leach. Stephens. 



" " Curtis. Duncan. 



Papilio Galathea, LiNN^us. Lewin. Wilkes. 



" " Donovan. Harris. 



Arge Galathma, Boisduval. Hubner. 



Satyrus Galathaa, Latreille. Duponchel. 



The entomologist may, or may not be, an aristocrat; but •whether 

 or no, politics he eschews. The peer and the plebeian 'a:-quo pulsat 

 pede' the wood side, or the green lane, the mountain top, or the 

 sheltered valley. The butterfly-collector's pride of race is centred in 

 one which is alien to his own. "There is my friend the weaver" 

 says the excellent poet Crabbe, speaking of an entomological one ; 

 and the honest artizan or mechanic will be " hail fellow well met " 

 with the "Proud Duke of Somerset" himself, if both should meet 

 together on common ground, in the kindred pursuit of a rare species. 



Thus, the term a "good neighbourhood" may be understood in 

 another sense than that which is commonly meant by it, and I, for 

 one, prefer the retired glade of the forest to "Belgrave vSquare" or 

 "the Dukeries," and the air of the mountain to that of the Court: — 



"Give mo but these; I ask no more; 

 With, etc." 



We do indeed lament the loss of many of the "old families," and I 

 must say, speaking entomologically, that we treat with considerable 

 contempt many of our modern new ones. 



There is hardly a more strikingly beautiful species of butterfly in 

 our country than the Marbled White: the contrast of its black and 

 white markings is exceedingly pleasing. 



