IS 



" matt," unfold, unwind, open, as the chrysalis entered the winged state and passed. The 

 winged thing was a symbol of the soul ; it appears in the hyeroglyphics as the moth or 

 butterfly. The common view, we know, originates the word with the yellow Diurnae as 

 illustrated in the butter-colored wing of the genus Colias. The word butter is supposed 

 to be derived from "put" (E?.), food; and "ter" (Eg.), made, .fabricated. The butter- 

 fly may be the type "put" (Eg.), "ter," complete, perfect. Thus in death ("mut")the 

 soul passed, unfolded like the moth, whose chrysalis showed and was the type of the pro- 

 cess, whence the butterfly. Calling the moth a soul identifies the imagery as Egyptian. 

 In Cornwall, England, departed souls, moths and fairies are called "piskeys." Piskey 

 is the same as psyche, and both are derived from the Egyptian, in which "khe" is the 

 soul, and "su" is she; hence the feminine nature of the Greek "p-su-khe." Without 

 the article, " sakhu " is the understanding, the illuminator, the eye, and soul of being,, 

 that which inspires. 



The ancients evidently were not very good entomologists, for this original meaning, 

 beautiful as it is, is altogether incompatible with the teachings of the modern science, for 

 in these days we realize that the so-called spiritual life, as represented by the butterfly, is 

 but a span in comparison with the earthly life, as illustrated by the larva, and that the 

 heavenly aspiration and grace which mark the shorter life are the outcome of a compara- 

 tive eternity of rioting and waste ; yet, be it said, the silk worm at the eleventh btour 

 makes a good record. 



" Well were it for the world, if all 

 Who creep about tliis earthly ball, 

 Though shorter-lived than most he be, 

 useful in their kind as he." 



Morever, who that has ever attempted to capture a Limenitis arthemis, but has learned 

 to his cost, that though a thing of beauty, and its possession a joy for ever, its habits are 

 deceitful. Well do 1 remember a chase for this butterfly — the first that 1 had ever seen 

 on the wing. It was a royal game of tag, with hide-and-go-seek variations. We see- 

 sawed up and down a ravine for nearly an hour. When first discovered it was regaling 

 itself in the sunlight, upon a leaf about half away down the opposite bank, all the while 

 jerking its wings, after a fashion, as if beckoning me over. By the time I had. worked 

 my way down over the rocks and through the briers, it was spreading its wings on the 

 bank 1 had just left, and when I returned it was away again to its favorite leaf on the other 

 Tired and heated, 1 gave up the chase, when the artliefnis, in a most provoking 

 way, lit upon a shrub beneath my very nos.e. This coquettish insect apparently realized 

 my discomfiture, and after repeated approaches and withdrawals, it rose on wing and with 



"The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair 

 And sport and flutter in the fields of air." 



ENTOMOLOGICAL EXHIBITS AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION. 



BY WM. SAUNDERS, LONDON, ONT. 



The United States Government exhibit, and those of several of the States, at the 

 New Orleans Exposition, included many features of interest to the Entomologist. The 

 Entomological Bureau of the Department of Agriculture had a very fine display illustrat- 

 ing Economic Entomology, which was brought together and arranged under the direction 

 of Prof. Riley, and was not only interesting, but very instructive. 



The first thing that caught the eye of the visitor on entering this section was a series 

 of large diagrams on cotton, illustrating the life history of a number of injurious insects, 

 such as the Plum Curculio, Conotrachelns nenuphar, and its parasites ; the Chinch Eug, 

 Ali-ropus Uucoptrrus : the Jumping Sumach Beetle, Bleplvarida rhois ; the Boll Worm, 

 Heliothia armigera . the Round-headed and Flat-headed Apple-tree Borers, Saperda Candida 

 and Ckryaobothria fsmorata . the Codling Moth, Carpocapsa pomonella ; the Peach Borer, 

 Aegeria exitiosa ; the Grape Phylloxera, Phylloxera vastatrix, and a large nunlber of other 



