CONTENTS. 



history of the fugacious Butterfly, as typifying the flight of the immortal 

 soul, stands foremost for clearness, for exactitude, for beauty, and for sol- 

 emn import. 



First we have WINTER in his merriest mood, represented by the Cricket, be- 

 decked with Christmas holly, and alive with fun and jollity. By his right 

 hand he holds the Brimstone Butterfly, emblem of SPBING, primrose of 

 papilions in habits and in hue. Beneath, the jocund Grasshopper, linked 

 to the above by a vernal wreath, figures the bright SUMMEE, and in the 

 glowing Peacock Butterfly, rich in her velvet train as the autumnal flowers 

 she frequents, we welcome AUTUMN, bearing the ripe sheaf, and presenting 

 her merry associate with the fruit of the vine. 



January 



1. THE CRICKET. INTRODUCTORY. Page. 



The House Cricket, Acheta domestica, gaining access to the milk-jug by a sprig 

 of holly . 3 



Symbolic portrait of the author in his character of the Cricket, Acheta, domestica, 

 selecting a title for his lucubrations 11 



2. TEE POINTS OF OUR HOBBY. 



The Cricket mounted on the back of a magnified May-Fly, Ephemera, Vvlgata, in _ 

 search of entomological subjects . . 12 



To the end of time tMs vMl carry us. 



Emblems of riches, rank, and the pomps and vanities of life outweighed in 

 the balance by the author's hobby of Entomology under the figure of a 

 May-Fly .31 



3. FLIES IN WINTER, AND A FLY LEAF. 



A magnified representation of the House Fly, Musca dcmestica, crawling up a 



