SCALE WIXGS. 15 



'Tis a tube through which the insect 

 Sucks the honey from the flowers, 

 Sit down on this bridge a minute, 

 Looking on the tiny river 

 As it runs among the sedges, 

 And then I will try to tell thee 

 All I know about the Scale Wings, 

 How to gi'oup them into orders. 



First, the Papilionina 

 Take the precedence for beauty. 

 Butterflies we always call them. 

 And it is not hard to know them : 

 First, they always fly in sunshine ; 

 Then, they have these knobbed antennae, 

 Coming forwards from the forehead ; 

 These are sometimes called the feelers, 

 And some think them ears for hearing. 

 But we know they are antennae. 

 And were made for some wise purpose ; 

 Wliat that purpose is we know not. 

 All their wings are very ample, 

 And the hind wings gaily coloured. 

 Gaily coloured like the fore wings, 

 Never hidden by the fore wings. 

 Never folded up beneath them. 

 When these insects rest at nighttime, 

 Or would hide from passiug showers, 

 Then their wings are all erected. 



