STRUCTURE OF PUPiE. 



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folded up in the manner we have here indicated. 

 The wings are still covered with moisture, so that the 

 powdery down which clothes them is scarcely visible, 

 and they have not yet assumed their beautiful colours 

 and elegant markings, but are of a dusky ash-gray. 

 The legs, however, are already so firm that the insect 

 nioves them about, and also coils up its sucker, and 

 plays its antennae. It is worthy of remark, that the 



o, under side of tl'.e chrysalis of the peacock butterfly, h, the 

 wings and anieiinaa traced out from the same, r, the perfect in- 

 sect (Vaneaa In) fully developed. 



