Longevity or Butterflies. Lubbock's discovery of much greater longevity of ants than has hitherto been believed thinks that the same may be true with regard to the butterfly although the common notion is that the butterfly's life is a short and merry one. The correspondent who writes from Bournemouth then relates the following incident: our house through the garden door and was caught and put under a large bell glass. On the following day another came in and was also put under the glass. They were supplied daily with fresh flowers and a few drops of new honey which they evidently much en lived until yesterday December 14. Whenever the their beautiful wings and flew about vigorously occa sionally resting on a flower to thrust their trunks deeply into its corolla or standing over and sue up the drops of honey. The extraordinarily sensit v nervous system of these little beauties was indicated by the most rapid vibratile trembling of the wings directly the sunlight or the scent of fresh flowers reached them. When the sun was not out they usually remained perfectly still with their wings closed espe cially selecting to hang on the under side of a leaf. They showed great intelligence in distinguishing the freshly gathered flowers and in deciding that honey was the right thing to eat and I have seen one of them scramble with considerable difficulty across his cage through a tangle of leaves and stalks determined to get to a particular leaf on which he wished to hang. After some unsuccessful attempts to reach it he hooked it down with one foot then held it with another until he could get the rest of his legs upon it having done which he appeared satisfied shut up his wings and hung himself upon it topsy-turvy to rest. If he ately tried another appearing to think that having six at his disposal it was foolish to waste much time on any one. But he only used his most anterior pair on very special occasions. How long each butterfly had lived before it was caught I do not know b
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