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TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 



resting phenomena have been added to insect life since the 

 beginning of it. 



How clearly it is the truth that the metamorphosis of insects 

 is but a progressive development of the immature into the mature 

 being, can best be seen by a slight examination of some of those 

 structures which are altered during growth, and of those which 

 appear during the consecutive stages of life. 



