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PREFACE. 



A DESIRE to extend the knowledge af, aud by so 

 doing to extend the love for, those sunny creatures 

 called Butterflies, has prompted the author to undertake 

 this little work, which, though making no pretence to 

 A technically scientific character, will, it is hoped, be 

 found sufficiently complete and accurate to supply all 

 information needful to the young entomologist as to the 

 names, appearance, habits, localities, &c. of all our 

 British Butterflies, together with a general history of 

 butterfly life the mode of capture, preservation, and 

 arrangement in cabinets the apparatus required, &c. 

 At the same time it is so inexpensive as to be acces- 

 sible to every schoolboy. 



The subject is one which has formed the delight and 

 study of the author from early boyhood, and butterfly- 

 hunting still preserves its fascinations, redoubling the 

 pleasure of the country rambl,: in summer. 



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