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and slower than that of their better equipped 

 relatives. 



Although the majority of butterflies creep into 

 holes, behind pieces of detached bark, under the 



OBANGE TIP BUTTERFLY. 



roofs of buildings and similar 



places, to spend the night, 



some of them, especially the smaller species, simply 



hang on to flowers, grass stems, and similar objects 



in the fields. 



One evening in May, whilst rambling along a 

 hedgerow side in search of anything interesting I 

 could find, I discovered an orange tip butterfly 

 asleep on a wild flower. Later on we tried to photo- 

 graph it by means of the magnesium flash-lamp, 

 but as our bull's-eye lantern could not be coaxed 



