AFTER the long winter months, when the colours drain out of the landscape, and all is black and white and grey, the spring comes again to bring all the bright hues out of their hiding-places. The richest and most brilliant colours in Nature's palette are those that the moth and the butterfly wear on their wings, and when the hibernating butterflies awake all the gaiety of spring is in the air again. In this talk Mr. Eric Parker will describe the early moths and butterflies, and , their humbler relations, the caterpillars.