Seated to the right of the Dahlia is the beautiful Red Admiral Butterfly, 

 Vanessa Atatanta, and to the left the Common Blue, Polyommatus Alexis, both 

 exhibiting their under-wing painting. The Butterfly descending towards them 

 is the Common Copper, Lycana phlceas. 



BUTTERFLIES IN GENERAL. 



HOUGHTS on Butterflies always bring with 

 them thoughts on flowers. We have viewed 

 them already in some of their mutual rela- 

 tions j but under this, their combined aspect, 

 they are both so doubly pleasant to look upon, 

 that we must trace here a few of their corresponding features, 

 some of them perhaps for a second time. Flowers seem, as it 

 were, to impart a portion of their own characteristics to all 



