14 TRIBES OF THE 



III. 



TRIBES OF THE SCALE WINGS. 



Let us take a stroll, my Laura, 



Down Farm Lane and to the sedge pond. 



Where thy father often fishes 



For the pretty water beetles, 



Grapii and branchiatus, 



Hubueri and marginalis, 



Agilis and punctulatus, 



Ater, Sturmii and fuscus, 



Pretty Colymbetes fuscus. 



That my Laura once caught flying. 



Thence we'll turn to rural Bm'nt Ash. 



Haply we may meet with Stainton, 



With his ardent class around him. 



As we walk Lll try and teach thee 



Something more about the Scale Wings. 



Lepidoptera, or Scale Wings, 



Are the butterflies and night moths. 



And we know them by the scaled wings, 



And the mouth, so like a watch spring. 



Coiled up underneath their faces ; 



