CONTENTS 



DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



BUTTERFLIES IN GENERAL. 



Various species just risen and bursting from their chrysalidan shrouds, mount 

 towards the skies or repose upon everlasting flowers. 



The lowest Butterfly to the left is the Peacock, Van-essa, lo, that above is the 

 Common Copper, Lyccena Phlceas, the next above is the Common Blue, 

 Polyommatus Alexis, and that to the left is the same, showing its 

 under-wing painting. Above these, upon the sprig of flowers, is the Lady 

 of the Woods, AntJiocharis Cardamines, and over this to the right is the 

 Brimstone, Gonepteryx Rhamm, having the Hair-Streak Purple, Theda, 

 Quercus, to the left, and the Silver-washed Fritillary, Argynnis PapJiia, 

 above. In the centre is the beautiful Swallow-Tail, Papilio Mdchaon, 

 to the right below is the Red Admiral, Vanessa Atalanta / perched 

 above, showing its under-wing, is the small Garden White, Pontla Rapce / 

 over that, a little to the left, is the Meadow Brown, IRpparchia Janira, 

 and uppermost upon the flowers is the Common Copper, Lyccena Phlaas, 

 exhibiting its under-wing. Suspended to the branches beneath are numer- 

 ous chrysalides, one of which exhibits the small Tortoise-shell Butterfly 

 recently emerged. 



To the symbolic meaning of this picture it is scarcely needful to point, for in 

 the Book of Nature, so truly described to be a Book of Emblems, the 



