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ocellated spots, which delights in chalky districts, abounding 

 in blue flowers, and fragrant with the wild thyme, on which its 

 caterpillar feeds. This is the blue "Corydon," a shepherd 

 flutterer, wooing his brown Phillis over the Upland Downs. 



Most people, however little they may know in general of 

 insect forms, are able at once to tell a butterfly from a moth. 

 There is, however, a very distinct family of Lepidoptera, called 

 Hesperidce* the members of which, displaying certain features 

 which belong to butterflies with others which appertain to 

 moths, would puzzle any but an entomologist to say to which 

 of these grand divisions they belong. Their most proper place 

 would seem between the two, of which they have been con- 

 sidered the connecting link ; but, as with butterflies they are 

 usually classed, our brief notices of the chief among our 

 British Day-fliers would be more imperfect than they are, 

 without mention, in conclusion, of these Hesperian fliers of 

 the evening, which are, however, fliers also of the day. 



Butterflies when taking their repose, or resting in that 

 dubious state described by the poet, when he says 



" I've watched you now one short half-hour, 

 Self-poised upon that yellow flower, 

 And, little butterfly, indeed 

 I know not if you sleep or feed " 



are accustomed to have both pairs of wings perpendicularly 

 folded. Moths, on the contrary, rest usually with them all 



* Skippers. 



