PREFACE. Vll 



mass of interesting and original communications from 

 correspondents who, living in wide-spread localities, 

 and possessing varied opportunities of observation, have 

 gradually brought together, under able editorship, a 

 store of facts that could never have come within the 

 personal experience of any one man, however indus- 

 trious and observant. 



The capture during the past year of a new and 

 interesting butterfly for the first time in this country, 

 is recorded in this volume, in which the insect is 

 also figured and described. 



BAYS WATER, April 1860. 



