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. Barbauld.