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THE LIFE OF AN INSECT. 



of the lace-wing flies. To look at a number of 

 larvae, all crawling over one another, and bearing 

 perhaps not the most loving behaviour to each 

 other as they scramble about, who would dream 

 that, in a little while, those slowly moving 

 bodies will be whirled through the air faster 

 than our feet can pursue, or even than the eye 

 can follow ? Who also, but one well versed in 

 the knowledge of insects, could venture to say 

 what insect could be formed by this or that 

 larva, now so little resembling winged insects at 

 all? 



In studying the forms and appearances of 

 various larvae, we shall find that some of them bear 

 a tolerably close resemblance to the future insect ; 



Larvce unlike the future Insects. Larvce like the future Insects. 



while others, on the contrary, do not resemble 

 their future condition at all ; and had we to decide 



