NEWMAN'S ENTOMOLOGIST.

VOLUME VII.

LONDON:

E. NEWMAN, PRINTER, DEVONSHIRE STREET,

BISHOPSGATE.

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., STATIONER'S HALL COURT.

1874.

"Observe the INSECT RACE ordained to keep
The lazy Sabbath of a half-year's sleep.
Entombed beneath the filmy web they lie,
And wait the influence of a kinder sky.
When vernal sunbeams pierce their dark retreat
The heaving tomb distends with vital heat;
The full-formed brood, impatient of their cell,
Start from their trance, and burst their silken shell;
Trembling awhile they stand, and scarcely dare
To launch at once upon the untried air.

At length assured, they catch the favouring gale,
And leave their sordid spoils and high in æther sail."
MRS. BARBAULD.

"Even in favour of the mere butterfly-hunter-he who has no higher aim than that of collecting a picture of Lepidoptera, and is attached to insects solely by their beauty or singularity-it would not be difficult to say much. Can it be necessary to declaim on the superiority of a people, amongst whom intellectual pleasures, however trifling, are preferred to mere animal gratifications? Is it a thing to be lamented that some of the Spitalfields weavers occupy their leisure hours in searching for the Adonis butterfly, instead of spending them in playing at skittles or in an alehouse? Or is there, in truth, anything more to be wished than that the cutlers of Sheffield were accustomed thus to employ their Saint Mondays; and to recreate themselves, after a hard day's work, by breathing the pure air of their surrounding hills while in pursuit of this, their ' untaxed and undisputed game'?"-KIRBY AND SPENCE.