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when the sun is warm, Butterflies (Papilio) 

 are seen on all sorts of trees, shrubs, plants, 

 and flowers. Moths (Phalana) may be found 

 in the day-time, sitting on walls, pales, trunks 

 of trees, in shades, out-houses, dry holes, and 

 crevices ; on fine evenings they fly plentifully 

 about the places they inhabit in the day-time : 

 Some (Sphinx) are seen flying in the day-time 

 over the flowers of honey-suckles and other 

 plants with tubular flowers. Insects of this 

 species seldom sit to feed, but continue vibrat- 

 ing on the wing, while they thrust the tongue 

 or proboscis into the flower, and in that action 

 are most easily caught. 



IV. Insects of the fourth Order (NEURO- 

 PTEllA) are found in woods (Myrmeleon, He- 

 merobius, Raphidia), hedges, meadows, sand- 

 banks, walls, pales, fruits, and umbelliferous 

 flowers; some (Libellula, Ephemera, Phry- 

 ganea) fly about lakes and rivers in the day. 



V. The fifth Order (HYMENOPTERA), in- 

 cluding Wasps (Fespa), Bees (Jpis),&ic. may 

 be seen about hedges (Tenthredo, Sirex, Ich- 

 neumon, Sphex, Vespa, Apis), shrubs, flowers, 



