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being's limbs straight, it is the custom to wrap 

 babies up in swaddling clothes, until they can 

 neither stir hand nor foot, and they are 

 made to resemble Egyptian mummies 

 as nearly as possible. Babies wrapped 

 up in this cruel and barbarous manner 

 form objects of so peculiar an appear- 

 ance, that it is quite ludicrous to trace 

 the resemblance between them and the 

 A Pupa. pupce of insects; and therefore Linnaeus, 

 as it appears, could scarcely have selected a better 

 epithet for the insect than its present title of pupa, 

 as it too has the aspect of being wrapped up in 

 swaddling bands. 



But, as we formerly mentioned with regard to 

 larvae, all insects in the pupa state are not called 

 popularly by their scientific and correct name. 

 Those that are closely wrapped up, and are in fact 

 complete mummy insects, are called sometimes by 

 the term Chrysalis, or Aurelia, because they are 

 sometimes of %> golden lustre, the one being derived 

 from the Latin, the other from the Greek term 

 for " gold," and this even when they are not gilded 

 in this manner. Again, when, as we shall pre- 

 sently have to notice, the insect in the pupa state 



