86 Beautiful Butterflies. 



said to have done we like far less. The fair Camberwell 

 Beauty — the loveliest of British Butterflies — is by no 

 means complimented in having such a name bestowed 

 upon her. 



We cannot refrain from quoting here a passage from 

 a monthly publication called c The Naturalist/ wherein 

 this butterfly is very touchingly and pleasingly alluded 

 to. Our young readers, we have no doubt, will 

 fully enter into the feelings and associations there 

 expressed : — 



"It was on a summer evening, of early life, when 

 little more than a child, in rambling through a wood on 

 a holiday, my attention was drawn to a spray on which 

 rested a Camberwell Beauty. I had never seen such 

 perfection before. My eye rested on the rich dark 

 velvety wings, fringed with ermine white, relieved by 

 an inner border of metallic blue spots, like bracelets of 

 lapis lazuli. At this moment I could mark the very 

 spot in the forest where this vision was revealed, and 

 well do I remember the thrill of delight with which I 

 captured and carried off my prize in triumph, to ex- 

 hibit before a little knot of schoolfellows. I can see 

 their uplifted hands, I can hear their exclamations of 

 surprise, as they beheld the splendid captive. I can 

 recall their features and their forms as if now living, 

 though every individual among them has long since 

 been called away, and now possibly familiarised with 



