298 NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Description. 



CHAP. IX. 



(t Child of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, 

 JVlingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; 

 And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold. 

 Quaff fragrant nectar, from their cups of gold; 

 There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, 

 Expand and shut with silent ecstacy I 

 Yet wert thou once a worm a thing that crept 

 On the bare earth, then \vroughl a tomb and slept.'* 



ROGERS, 



BUTTERFLIES. 



THE butterfly may be said to consist of three- 

 parts; the head, the corselet, and the body. The 

 body is the hinder part, and is composed of rings, 

 which are generally concealed under long hairs 

 with which that part of the animal is cloathed, 

 The corselet is more solid than the rest of the 

 body, and in which the fore-wings, and the legs 

 are fixed. They have six legs but make use of 

 only four ; the two fore are covered by the long 

 hairs of the body, and are sometimes so much 

 concealed that it is difficult to discover them. 

 The eyes of butterflies have not all the same 



