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THE PUPA. 



will rapidly expand and take their due proportions, its 

 limbs become tense, and its body assumes the tints and 

 shades of the adult insect, and it flies or hops away to 

 lead a life entirely different in all points from its earlier 

 stages of existence, as the perfect insect or 

 The Imago. 



Libellula quadrimaculata. 



