CONTENTS. 



the passengers seated near the prow, one has a nearly similar visor, whilst 

 the female is invested with tke features of the Boat-Fly, resembling those 

 which form the figure-head of the boat 301 



17. BUTTERFLIES IN GENERAL. 



Seated to the right of the Dahlia is the beautiful Eed Admiral Butterfly, Famssa 

 Akalanta, and to the left the Common Blue, Polyommatus Alexis, both ex- 

 hibiting their under-wing painting. The Butterfly descending towards them 

 is the Common Copper, Lyccena, phlceas. For illustrations of other species 

 treated of in this essay, see the Frontispiece ...... 302 



The Painted-Lady Butterfly, Cynthia Cardu,i, whose Memoirs deserve a volume 

 to themselves, if only for the moral they teach, 



1 Such mistresses dare never come in rain 



' For fear their colors should be washed away ;" 



of equal application to the summer-day flutterer of fashion, and this, her 

 prototype of the insect world, the Cynthia of the Thistle, upon which plant 

 she loves to regale as a spiny caterpillar, before putting on her butterfly 

 attire .... .320 



