CONTENTS. IX 



19. COMING OUT. 



Insects of three several orders are here depicted, as emerged or emerging from 

 their pupa cases. Oil the right, are two caterpillars of the small Tor- 

 toiseshell Butterfly (Vanessa Urticee), suspended to the stalks of nettles 

 for their second transformation. They are huiig pendent by means of 

 hooks passing through silken loops woven to the stalks ; and through 

 the skin of the lowest, which is rent at the shoulders, appears the head 

 of the emerging chrysalis, or pupa, To the left of these, and suspended 

 in like manner, hangs the chrysalis itself, or, more properly, its empty 

 skin, on which, recently come forth, stands the Butterfly, with wings 

 hung down for more complete expansion. On the nettle-leaf below, are 

 two empty, barrel-shaped pupa-cases of flies, sometimes parasitic on the 

 same caterpillars ; of these, one is prepared for flight, while the other, 

 more recently emerged, appears with wings still damp, white, and 

 crumpled. To the left, on a stalk of marestail (Equisetuni), is the pupa 

 of a Dragon-Fly (Mschna varia), from whence, through a rent on the 

 shoulders, the perfect insect is "coming out." One emerged appears 

 on wing at a distance in pursuit of its butterfly prey 22 



" See, Heaven's own emblem of the soul." 



The sinner exhorted, by the symbol of insect transformation, to " come out" 

 from the sensual debasements of his fallen nature 43 



20. THINGS OF A DAT. 



The transformations of a May- or Day-Fly (Ephemera vulgata), form the 

 subject of this Vignette. On the bank is the grub or larva, with the 

 nest-holes, usually below water, which it is accustomed to inhabit. At- 

 tached to the grass above is a vacated skin, the complete envelope of a 

 perfect fly, which it always casts off on its fourth or last development. 

 To the right, flies an imago, or perfect insect, as freed from this incase- 

 ment, while a company of the same are seen disporting at a distance . 44 



" These stand their purposed day." 



An ephemeral establishment for ephemeral education ; one, as the other, tem- 

 porary in design rotten in foundation . 59 



