the student, who is deterred from further pursuit by tlie 

 forbidding aspect under which the subject is presented to 

 his notice. 



It has therefore been the object of the Editor of the 

 present little work to avoid both these extremes, and thus 

 blending amusement with scientific instruction, to olTer to 

 the collector of British Butterflies an acceptable guide. 

 That it might have been much more complete, she readily 

 admits ; and, under abler hands, she is not ashamed to 

 confess, that it is yet capable of further improvement. 



" Still an ample field remains, 



But not for her, to otliers »he gives way. 

 Who choose a longer course." * 



But it is not the province of authors to point out their 

 own defects. It is submitted, therefore, such as it is, to the 

 kind indulgence of the British Aurelianist, with requesting 

 his attention to the following remark : — 



In the Synoptical Table, are inserted the names of those 

 Butterflies only, which are recorded as purely British on 



• It is a source of gi'atiticatioii lo the author of this little work, 

 that it appears lo have led to the publication of " lirowii's Hook 

 of Uutlerflies," and to the elegant volume on the same subject in 

 the "Naturalist's Library,'* by Duncan; lo whom it seems to 

 have been in no slight degree useful. 



