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TRUE TALES OF THE INSECTS. 





the bed, disengages himself from her clinging arms, and 

 after reproaching her bitterly for her forfeited fidelity, 



springs with his 

 pinions on high, 

 and vanishes 

 from the sight of 

 his most u n - 

 happy wife. 



Now follow 

 Psyche's wan- 

 derings and 

 trials. I n c o n - 

 solable, knowing 

 no rest, she is 

 driven about 

 from place to 

 place seeking 

 her beloved, her 

 desire of finding him increasing with the difficulty of 

 the search ; then hope changing to despair, even of her 

 own safety, she casts herself on the mercy of Venus : 

 perchance she may meet him in the house of his 

 mother. "At length," cries she, "have you thought 

 proper to come and pay your respects to your mother-in- 

 law ! But take courage, for your reception will be such 

 as a good mother-in-law ought to give ; " thereupon her 

 servants Solicitude and Sorrow scourge and otherwise 



FIG. 30. The Calliper Butterfly (Charaxes kadenii}, 

 from Java : sucking liquid from a muddy spot. 



