The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chap. XXX

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING INSECTS.-(Continued.) The Common House Fly-The Hessian Fly-The May Fly- The Vegetable Fly-The Boat Fly-The Ephemeral Flies- Butterflies-Metamorphoses of Insects-The Death-Watch. What atom-forms of insect life appear!.

And who can follow Nature's pencil here?

Their wings with azure, green, and purple gloss'd, Studded with colour'd eyes, with gems emboss'd; Inlaid with pearl, and mark'd with various stains Of lively crimson through their dusky veins.

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