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the fact that he saw an imago of Acherontin Atropos moult a complete and thin pellicle 

 after its emergence from the pupal cuticle. I have also noted a passage in Packard's 

 'Guide to the Study of Insects ' (9th edit., 1889). It runs thus :— " In the last stage 

 of Bomhiis, just before the imago leaves its cell, the body and limbs are surrounded by a 

 thin pellicle. This pellicle also envelops the moth just before it leaves the pupal state, 

 and is cast off when it moults the pupa skin. This is probably identical willi the skin 

 cast by the active sub-imago of Ephemera soon after it takes its flight " (p. 68). 



The subject is one which I liojie to pursue further on another occasion, and will only 

 add here that cast pupal cuticles of Sphiitx llgustri may occasionally bo met with in 

 which a thin pellicle can be raised from the inner surface. An inquiry into this and 

 other structural changes taking place during pupal life in a series of metabolic Insects 

 would probably thi'ow light on the still obscure question of the origin and significance 

 of the quiescent pupal stage. 



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