INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



" Lo, tho briglit train their radiant wings tnif'old 

 With silver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold. 

 On Oie gay bosom of some fragi-ant flower, 

 They idly flntt'ring live their little hour ; 

 Their lite all pleasure, and then- task all jday, 

 All spring their age, and sunshine all their day." 



MILS. BARRAUI.n, 



Tme Order Leijiiloptera, (a name derived from Xsffls, a scale, 

 and tCTifot, a wing,) to which the Butterfly tribes belong, 

 consists of insects which have four wings more or less covered 

 with minute scales, and which are generally fiirnislied with 

 a spiral tongue (Anllia.') This Order is divided Ijy modern 

 Entomologists into three primary sections, and denominated 

 Diurnal, Crepuscular, and Nocturnal Lepulojilrru. Tlie 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera torm the Linniean genus Papi/io, called 

 in England BuUcrJly, from the Saxon Butcop.pleoxe 

 (BuUm--Jleoze^) and so named because it first appears in tlie 

 beginning of the season for butter. The characters that dis- 

 tinguish this section are Antoineo shorter than the body, con- 

 sisting of numerous joints, and commonly terminating in a 

 longer or shorter knob or clavated tip : Labial Palpi cylin- 



• Introduction to Untoniology , vol. iii. |i. 3fiS, 4()SI. 



