For one rapidly transitional moment street-car traffic in St. Louis stood in three simultaneous stages of its Lepidopterous development: a caterpillar horse-car system crawled north and south along Jefferson Avenue, glass coin box and the backward glance of the driver, in lieu of conductor.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
Move on,-you Lepidopterous son of a wigglejoint, or I'll pull your real name on you in a minute and paralyze you stiff!
"Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man"
Marie Conway Oemler
The change from one hue to another produced by the play of light in altering the angle of its reflection, has always been much admired; and this occurs in great perfection, and with much diversity, in the lovely insects of the Lepidopterous order.
"The Romance of Natural History, Second Series"
Philip Henry Gosse