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the tropics, and the Phytophagous Chrysomelidae and 
Coccinellidae, onr familiar “ Lady-birds.” 
Leaving the Beetles, we come to the Hymenoytera, 
i.e. the Wasps, Bees, Ants, about which a series of 
twenty volumes could be written very easily, but 
which we are obliged to leave to the mercy of the 
visitor, for want of space, and so we must the 
Diptera, i.e. the Flies, and the Neuroptera, among 
which are the Ant-Lions. 
The 
Lepidoptera, 
i.e. Butterflies and Moths, are shown in a number 
of boxes. Of this attractive order Mr. Rothschild 
possesses one of the largest collections in the world, 
no doubt the largest in England. The popular dis- 
tinction between Butterflies and Moths is not a very 
deep-rooted scientific distinction, but very convenient. 
Of the former the Morpho of South America and 
other Morphids, and the Ornithoptera or Bird-winged 
Butterflies of the East, are among the largest and 
most brilliantly coloured ones, though some of the 
small Lycaenidae (“ Blues ”) and others equal them 
in beauty. Of the Moths the large Saturnidae, or 
Silk-producing Moths, now bred freely in Europe by 
many amateurs, and always on view in the insect 
house in the gardens of the Zoological Society in 
London, are the best known and, with a few exceptions, 
the largest Moths. 
