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INSECT TRANSFORMATIONS. 



better bear handling. It may be necessary to remark, 

 that though all the parts of the butterfly are in this 

 manner discoverable in the caterpillar, they are only 

 in the bud, if we may use the expression, and appear to 

 be out of proportion from being so closely folded up 

 and unexpanded. The whole, indeed, bears so much 

 analogy to the embryo of a plant in the seed, or the 



a, greatly niagnified view of a section of the bud of the labur- 

 luiiii. It exhibits the nascent flowers, arranged in regular order, 

 previou>ly to their bursting into perfect existence, b, section of 

 a bean-seed, c, beed-leaves, root, and the tirst true leaf of the 

 beech. 



