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animal may be easily conjectured. Indeed I 

 was impatient to become better acquainted with 

 so singular a creature. When it was completely 

 disengaged, and I had secured it from making 

 its escape, I set myself to examine it as accu- 

 rately as possible ; and I found, after a careful 

 inquiry, that I had not only got a non-descript, 

 but also an insect of a new genus, whose very class 

 seemed dubious." These insects, though rarely, 

 have been taken flying near the nests of bees. 



Order 11. LEPIDOPTERA. Wings four, mem - 

 branaceous, covered with meal-like scales ; 

 mouth with a spiral tongue. [PL III, fig. 3.] 



This order contains those very beautiful and 

 splendid insects, the Butterflies, Hawk-moths, 

 and Moths, whose extreme brilliancy has in- 

 duced many persons to take up the study of 

 Entomology, who would otherwise have remained 

 ignorant of this delightful science. Butterflies 

 appear during the day, and abound in hot 

 climates ; many of the species are extremely 

 local, and from the shortness of their lives 

 require greater assiduity in the Collector, and 

 a wider range of search, than is generally 

 supposed. As an illustration of this fact, we 

 must observe, that the number of the Papi- 



