What had my penny bargain in store for me?
Would the famous Bombyx issue from it?
Let us call it by its other name, the Banded Monk.

This original name of Monk was suggested by the costume of the male; a monk's robe of a modest rusty red.

But in the case of the female the brown fustian gives place to a beautiful velvet, with a pale transversal band and little white eyes on the fore pair of wings.
The Monk is not a common butterfly which can be caught by any one who takes out a net at the proper season.

I have never seen it around our village or in the solitude of my grounds during a residence of twenty years.

It is true that I am not a fervent butterfly-catcher; the dead insect of the collector's cabinet has little interest for me; I must have it living, in the exercise of its functions.