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XV. 
JULY 1st. 
Transformations of Insects — local Habits. — Baltimore Fritillary. — Large 
Sphinx. — Silver-spot Fritillary. — Tawny-edged Skipper. — Moths — ■ 
rearing winter Pupse. — Mould — Puff-balls. — Curious Beetles. — He- 
merobius. — Dragon-flies. — Day-flies ; — other Insects. — Giant Wa- 
terfly. — Buprsetis. — Raspberry. — Wild Strawberry. ■ — Poke. — 
Sandpiper. ^ — Blue Iris. — Redtop Grass. — White-throated Sparrow. 
— - Large Moth. 
Charles. — Perhaps one of the chief pleasures of natural 
history, especially entomology, is the perpetual novelty and 
variety we find in it : we are meeting at every turn with 
new and interesting facts : the endless diversity of habits, 
locality, structure, form, colour, to be found in insects, is 
such a source of pleasure, as effectually prevents us from 
feeling weariness or melancholy. It seems almost a con- 
tradiction in terms, for a naturalist to be in low spirits : 
everything he sees tends to enrapture and delight him. 
Among these things, one of the most pleasing is the observ- 
ation of the various transformations to which insects are 
subject : the same individual, Proteus-like, taking new forms 
and presenting new objects of examination to our admiring 
eye. — The caterpillars of the Forked and Orange Comma 
Butterflies, which I took a few weeks ago, have both become 
pupse, and the chrysalis of the Banded Purple ( Limenitis 
Arthemis ) has produced the butterfly, an insect of remark- 
able beauty : the contrast of the white, orange, and deep 
