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of mind? What worldly feeling can equal the aspirations of piety, 

 the "Breathings of the devout soul?" What pictui-e can depict the 

 real landscape to the eye of the mind? "Who can paint like nature?" 

 and where is the artist hut must borrow both his ideas and his hues 

 from her? What elaborate perfume can vie with the scent of the 

 primrose, the violet, the hawthorn, and the rose? What artificial 

 draught can give the refreshment that "gentle sleep" will bestow 

 even on the "ship-boy" rocked upon the mast? "He giveth His 

 beloved sleep," and who can sell, or who can buy it, if He denies 

 the inestimable boon to the sick or the wearied in body or in mind? 



This may be moralising, but moralising should never be out of 

 place, and I wish for readers who can moralise with a "Country 

 Parson," and share with him in the devout feelings which it is his 

 duty to spread as widely as he can. And what is true of nature, the 

 work of God, in any one particular, is true, in this respect, of all; 

 and if it be the right and the good way to find "sermons in stones 

 and good in every thing, " let the entomologist be allowed his share 

 in the laudable feeling, and admire, in the elegant butterfly before 

 us, the handiwork of the Almighty and Adorable Creator. 



This fine fly is not uncommon in most of the southern counties, 

 among others in Hampshire, near Winchester; also at Bisterne, and, 

 too, at Lyndhurst. In Yorkshire, at Sutton-on-Derwent Wood and 

 Buttercrambe iMoor. It is taken in plenty so far north as Osberton, 

 in Nottinghamshire, the seat of George Savile Foljambe, Esq. Also 

 at Ashton Wold, Northamptonshire, and south to Brighton. 



It frequents the paths and borders of woods, and also, it is said, 

 heathy places. 



The perfect insect appears the end of June or beginning of July. 

 (Mr. Dale once, namely in 18f24, took the larva of this species in the 

 New Forest, Hampshire, on the 1st. of June.) 



The wings expand to the width of about two inches and a half. 

 The fore wings are of a rich fulvous ground-colour, the base greenish, 

 and the remainder thickly mottled over with black marks, many of 

 which, especially a row, forming almost a continuous waved streak a 

 little within the margin, are more or less of a crescent form. The 

 extreme edge is pale fulvous, and within this are two black lines 

 intersecting a row of black dots, both again intersected horizontally 

 by the black veins of the wings. The hind wings are marked very 

 much in a similar way: the outside edge is slightly concave. 



Underneath, the fore wings shew through most of the marks from 

 above, those however at and near the outside edge being much fainter 

 and more indistinct: the ground-colour too is rather paler. The black 



