136 THE BUTTERFLY VIVARIUM. 



with various kinds of antennae, such as are found 

 among Moths — divisional terms which will be more 

 fully explained in the opening of the Chapter on 

 Moths, previous to describing Plate IV. In the mean 

 time, as the term Papilio was preserved by Eabri- 

 cius in his " Sy sterna Glossatorum," and is still used 

 to designate a "family" by the title Papilionidce, 

 the first genus of which is still Papilio — and as it is, 

 in the form of Papillon, the popular French name of 

 all Lepidopterous insects, it will not be uninteresting 

 to trace, if possible, its origin in its Latin form, as 

 well as that of other ancient names given to the 

 Butterfly family. 



With the Greeks we find that the term Psyche 

 prevailed as the common name of the Butterfly, 

 being the same word as that signifying either " the 

 soul" or "the breath of life." It is thus evident 

 that the poetic Greeks must have closely watched 

 the career of the Caterpillar, toiling, like man, on 

 the surface of the earth for a time, and feeding on 

 its productions — and eventually burying itself in the 

 earth, or enclosing itself in a sculpture-like sarco- 

 phagus in apparent death, from which .. it arose, in 

 due time, a glorious winged creature, to enjoy 

 what seemed a higher kind of existence. Having . 

 observed these singular changes, and the seeming 



