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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1836. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LEPIDOPTEEA. INTRODUCTION. In a previous volume of our entomological series, we have given a view of such of the day-flying lepidoptera, or butterfly tribes, as have been ascertained to inhabit Britain. Their extreme beauty renders them by far the most attractive of our native insects, and we trust that few can have their attention directed, however briefly, to their history, without having their curiosity gratified by the instances of singular instinct and economy with which it abounds. These constitute, however, only one section of the lepidopterous order, and that by no means one of the most extensive. The hawk-moths, and moths properly so called, form the other divisions; and to these we propose to devote the present volume, with the same limitation as formerly in regard to locality. A view will thus be afforded of the entire order of our . painted populace That live in fields and lead ambrosial lives, comprehending an account of the most interesting and remarkable native species which it contains. Scver.il of the hawk-moths are among the most conspicuous insects we possess, one of them the largest found in Europe; and their caterpillars are likewise remarkable for their size and beautiful colour. Although moths in general yield to the diurnal kinds in richness of decoration and colours which seem as if they caught their glowing tints from the pure skies and cloudless sunshine under which these gay creatures delight to roam, they yet present much to please the eye even in their mode of embellishment. Their subdued and occasionally almost sombre hues are finely adapted to the seasons in which they are destined for active life, and are often blended and intermixed in so harmonious a manner as to produce a most pleasing effect. Neither is this " sober ...
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