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HALF-MOURNER. MARMORESS.
PLATE XIII.
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MARBLED WHITE.
Hipparchia galathea, LEACH. STEPHENS.
" CURTIS. DUNCAN.
Papilio galathea, LINN^US. LEWIN. WILKES.
DONOVAN. HARRIS.
Arge galathaa, BOISDUVAL. HUBNER.
Saiyrus galathaa, LATREILLE. DUPONCHEL.
THE entomologist may, or may not be, an aristocrat, but
whether or no, politics he eschews. The peer or the plebeian
'aequo pulsat pede' the wood side, or the green lane, the
mountain top, or the sheltered valley. The Butterfly-collector's
pride of race is centred in one which is alien to his own.
"There is my friend the weaver," says the excellent poet,
Crabbe, speaking of an entomological one; and the honest
artizan or mechanic will be " hail fellow well met" with the
" Proud Duke of Somerset" himself, if both should meet together
on common ground, in the kindred pursuit of a rare species.
Thus, the term a " good neighbourhood" may be understood
in another sense than that which is commonly meant by it; and
I, for one, prefer the retired glade of the forest to " Belgrave
Square" or " the Dukeries," and the air of the mountain to
that of the Court:—
"Give me but these; I ask no more;
With, etc."
AVe do indeed lament the loss of many of the " old families,"
and I must say, speaking entomologically, that we treat with
considerable contempt many of our modern new ones.