BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



and black, and belongs to a family called papilio quite 

 a pretty name. 



Moths, of which something particular will soon be 

 said, are naturally thought of with butterflies. The 

 common ones are clad in sober dress. Under the mi- 

 croscope, the wings of all butterflies and moths disclose 

 beauties not seen by the naked eye. What commonly 

 appears to be colored dust, and rubs off the wings 

 under the touch of a finger, the microscope proves to 

 be very fine, shiny, or irridescent scales. As if these 

 wings had been sprinkled with powdered rainbow. 

 Butterflies and moths, on this account, are called scale- 

 winged insects. 



When visiting flowers, the scale-winged insect is 

 seeking its food, which is the sweet juice of flowers. 

 It has a long, tubular tongue or proboscis, which is 

 rolled up when not in use, and is unrolled and stretched 

 out, when the bottom of a flower is to be reached. 



The few weeks that Papilio lives are busy ones. 

 When not gathering food 

 she is finding the apple or 

 wild thorn, perhaps, for 

 a birthplace for her fut- 



Caterpillar of Papilio. 



ure children. She never 



sees her children. Very fortunate, you may think, 

 when you come to know that her infants are ugly, 

 crawling caterpillars. 



The truth is, that these ugly babes can take care of 

 themselves from the moment they are born, if they are 

 born in the right place. They are hatched from eggs, 

 in some cases beautiful eggs, shaped like vases and 

 caskets. These eggs are fastened to the leaves of 



