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forest road and the brink of the mountain brook ; 

 the soft white butterflies [Figs. 110-112], that 

 look too pure for earth, less retiring than the last, 



Fia. 110. Pieris rapae, male, nat. size (Riley). 



float about our gardens, alas ! on sad intent ; 

 while the brisk little tawny and black skippers 

 [Figs. 113-116] everywhere bustle and whisk 

 about. Summer, with its blazing sun and diver- 

 sified blossoms, brings us the hot-looking coppers 

 [Fig. 117], and all that dappled band of fritilla- 



PIG. 111. Pieris rapae, female, nat. size (Riley). 



ries (Dryades) [Fig. 118] and angle- wings [Fig. 

 119], blocked in red and black above, and often 

 variegated by odd dashes and spots of burnished 



