122 Beautiful Butterflies. 



Hawthorn Butterfly, and several other elegant species, the 

 names of which will be found in the following list, con- 

 taining those of all the kinds known to be British. It 

 is our purpose, in a future volume, to give a similar list 

 of the Nocturnal and Crepuscular Lepidoptera, that is, 

 the Moths of this country, with illustrations of the most 

 beautiful and remarkable species. Foreign Butterflies 

 and Moths will also form the subjects of two other 

 volumes, so that four of them will contain a tolerably 

 comprehensive account of the great Lepidopterous 

 family, and induce, as we hope, many young readers to 

 pursue the study of entomology in a regular and scien- 

 tific manner. We wish these little books to be regarded 

 as so many ornamented doorways, leading into the 

 great temple of nature ; and we would invite students 

 to pass through and examine the wonders and beauties 

 which lie beyond, praising God the while for the wisdom 

 and goodness displayed in all His works, so various and 

 so wonderful. 



The study of insects has sometimes been objected to 

 as trifling and frivolous, but no careful examination of 

 aught which has been created by the hand of the 

 Almighty can be so ; and the smaller the creatures ex- 

 amined, the more striking are the proofs which we meet 

 with of the exercise of a power and a skill such as man 

 never possessed. 



