Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum, or a Synoptical Table of English Butterflies
But the most fascinating branch of this study is perhaps the Genus papilio - and however the Hunters of Butter?ies may be laughed at by the Vulgar, and whatever ridicule may be thrown upon this their favorite pursuit, still the great number and variety of these Insects, as Well as the extreme beauty of some of them, cannot fail of attracting the notice and exciting the admiration of those, who are fond of contemplating the beauties and wonders of creation, and thereby rendering the study of them a source of pleasure and instruction.
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