STATES OF INSECTS. (Larva.) 173 
ness of mind, that the creatures were in a manner their 
own creators, their wants under local circumstances sti- 
mulating them to efforts that in a long course of years 
produced all the different forms and organizations that 
are now to be found in our globe. The affinities and 
close connexion of beings with each other, so that the 
ascent from low to high is usually by the most gentle 
gradations, is the circumstance on which they build this 
strange and impious theory. But the fact, that certain 
animals of one tribe were created with a view to certain 
animals of another, so as to present a striking aspect of 
correspondence, parallel almost with that of type and 
antitype, without any real affinity or approximation ;— 
this triumphantly proves a Power above and without 
them, who has associated them not only in a complex 
chain of affinities, but has caused them to represent and 
figure each other, even when evidently far removed, so 
as to give a mutual correspondence and harmony to the 
whole, which could be produced only by a Being infinite 
in power and wisdom, who made all things after a ge- 
neral preconceived plan and system. 
iv. We are now to consider the clothing with which 
larvee are furnished. Many are quite naked, and smooth 
or rough only with granular elevations or tubercles or- 
derly arranged; but a very considerable number, espe- 
cially of the Lepidoptera order, are clothed with hairs or 
bristles of different kinds, in greater or less abundance, 
and arranged in different modes; and a proportion still 
smaller have their skin beset with spines or a mixture of 
spines and hairs. Lyonnet found that the hairs of the 
caterpillar of the great goat-moth (Cossus ligniperda) were 
