INSECT ENJOYMENT. 213 



Garden- white, come to the wood thus early to drink the falling 

 dew-drops ere they dry ; while overhead, seated on the branch 

 above her, are a pair of pretty japan Moths laying their heads 

 together for discussion, doubtless in antennal language, of 

 some topic of mutual interest the alarming sound per- 

 haps of our voices or our footsteps ; for now, turning their 

 long horns, otherwise long ears, towards us, they take to 

 flight ere we have time to catch more than a glimpse of their 

 beautiful fringed wings of bronze and gold. Ah ! little fairies ! 

 it had been better for our cabinet, and worse for you, if your 

 sentinel senses had been less on the alert ! 



The above is no imaginary picture, but a group of objects 

 which may be seen any summer's day in localities such as 

 we have represented. 



