138 THE BUTTERFLY VIVARIUM. 



an. instant be made entirely to change its form, and 

 rise into the blue heavens to enjoy the glorious sun- 

 beams, how much more easy does it seem that a 

 being whose most earnest pursuits here have been 

 after an undying name, and after the acquisition of 

 intellectual power and knowledge, should be raised 

 hereafter to a state of being where immortality is 

 no longer a name, and ascend to the source of un- 

 bounded power and infinite wisdom." 



I recollect being once very much struck with an 

 old print in which a Butterfly was represented as 

 fluttering out of the mouth of a dead body, that of a 

 Man, which appeared to have just yielded up its last 

 breath. I could not understand the meaning at the 

 time, but have long since known, that the old en- 

 graver, following out the Greek feeling, had intended 

 in that way to illustrate the separation of the soul, 

 or spirit from the material form. 



There must also have been some other Greek 

 name for the Butterfly tribe, from which the com- 

 mon Latin name Papilio is derived. It has been 

 suggested that this Avord was the same as Pa/pilion, 

 (-rrairCKiwv), which was a kind of tent* used by several 

 Numidian tribes. It was also that of the cloth 



* The French term Pavilion, a tent, is thus derived, as our 

 own name for a small tent-like summer-house. 



