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CHAPTER V. 



THE BUTTERFLIES "AND MOTHS OF THE GREEN LANES. 



'HERE are few objects more generally noticed 

 tlian the butterflies and moths which 

 give such animation to a country stroll. 

 Of various colours and patterns, they 

 seem fit associates for the flowers and blossoms on 

 which they love to dwell for a few seconds. The 

 most careless observer has been amused by their 

 fantastic flutterings, and many a boy has been 

 educated into a. naturalist through following them 

 with his cap. The well-known metamorphoses 

 through which they pass, also, are better known than 

 the vital economy of any other forms of creature life. 

 For a long time they were believed peculiar to the 

 butterflies and moths, but naturalists now know 

 that such a change is not peculiar to them nay, 

 that it is repeated and varied in many ways among 

 the invertebrate animals. Let the three stages of 

 caterpillar, chrysalis, and imago be undergone by 

 three distinct creatures, instead of in the lifetime ol 



