WHEN summer has really arrived, 

 the amateur Nature student, who 

 has been diligently striving to 

 know the insect world, often begins to 

 feel that his task 

 has become a 

 hopeless one, and 

 he is tempted to 

 give up in sheer 

 despair. For some 

 weeks past his in- 

 sect friends have 

 daily become 

 more numerous. 

 Early in the 

 season there was 

 difficult}^ in find- 

 ing specimens ; 

 now they are by 

 far too obvious 

 and too numer- 

 ous. So many 

 and such varied 

 species have ap- 

 peared that to 

 attempt to learn 

 their ways and 

 to understand 

 them seems be- 

 yond possibility. 

 In the hot sun- 

 light their buzz- 

 ing fills the air ; the herbage is crowded 

 with their tiny quaint forms, and it is 

 only necessary to shake the branches of 

 the larger trees to discover that they also 

 harbour great swarms. By the water- 

 side still other forms appear, and a glance 

 into the water will show that even there 

 they are also largely in evidence. These 

 small people of the natural world have, 

 indeed, been so successful in the struggle 



WHITE ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY. 



for existence that they now can hold their 

 own in practically every life-sphere that 

 the earth provides ; in fact, they often 

 go further, and so estabhsh themselves 

 over vast tracts 

 of land that even 

 man's dominion 

 there is over- 

 thrown, and he 

 is driven away 

 before their on- 

 slaught. Seeing, 

 then, how abun- 

 dant insects are, 

 those who study 

 their ways have 

 to be content 

 with considering 

 a few species only 

 at a time, leav- 

 ing the many for 

 subsequent i n - 

 vestigation. 



In the present 

 article, therefore, 

 I am making no 

 attempt to enu- 

 merate the vast 

 and varied 

 throngs of 

 beetles, flies, bees, 

 ants, wasps, 

 moths, butterflies, etc., that appear in 

 such abundance during the summer 

 period. Instead, I propose to continue 

 with the developments of some of the 

 insects previously considered and intro- 

 duce new insects of other types from 

 time to time as these developments are 

 completed. 



One of the butterflies shown in its j)re- 

 11 mi nary stages in my last paper has now 



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