S2 tLI.USTUATIOXS OF A XFW SPFXIFS OF PAIMUO, 
each resting upon a patch darker than the disc of the \\ing. The 
female has the^fascia of the fore-wings nearly interrupted beyond 
the middle of the wing, especially on the upper side, the slender 
blue lunule next the anal margin is succeeded on the upper side 
by a small orange transverse spot, and some orange scales resting 
on a darker bro\\ii patch are seen between the fascia and pale mar¬ 
ginal incisions. The extremity of the hind wings is much more 
varied beneath than above, the white, fascia being followed by blue 
lunules (not so large as in the male), and these by transverse black 
patches, bearing buff-coloured lunules : the white incisions are 
also of larjxer size than in the males. 
The species is named in allusion to Canopus, one of the Southern 
constellations. 
The plant I’epresented in this Plate is the Australian Persoonia 
ferruginea. 
TO A BUTTERFLY SEEN IN jVJID-WINTER. 
[At the last meeting of the Entomological Society, February 5, 1844, a beautiful 
specimen of Pontia Rapae, evidently just disclosed from the chrysalis, was exhi¬ 
bited by F. Bond, Esq., which he had captured during the preceding month.J 
Child of the Summer! what dost thou here, 
In the sorrow and gloom of the weeping year; 
When the roses have withered that bloom’d on thy birth, 
And the sunbeam that nurs’d thee has passed from the earth? 
The dowers that fed thee are frozen and gone— 
Thy kindred are perished, and thou art alone— 
No one to welcome—no one to cheer— 
Child of the Summer I what dost thou here ? 
Yet ’tis sweet thy gossamer wing to view% 
Revelling wild in the troubled blue— 
Heeding nor rain, nor snow, nor storm— 
Buffeting all with thy tiny form. 
Even thus the hope of our summer days. 
In the heart’s lone wdnter gaily plays— 
Thou art the type of that hope so dear : 
Child of the Summer! thou ’rt welcome here! 
'VFelcorae ’mid sorrow, and gloom, and showers, 
Emblem of gladness that once was ours— 
Emblem of gladness that yet will come, 
When the sun-bright ether will be tliy home; 
And myriads of others, as bright as thou, 
Will revel around us—all absent now: 
Emblem of hope to the mourner dear. 
Child of the Summer ! thou’rt welcome here I 
Dublin Penny Journal. 
