CHAPTER IV. 



VARIETIES AND AGE OF THE PUPA. 



ALTHOUGH we are anxious not to attach too 

 much importance to mere names in this little 

 work, and rather to keep the reader's attention 

 fixed upon the really essential truths of the "Life of 

 an Insect," it is expedient that we should mention 

 that while all pupae may be divided into the two 

 classes, active and inactive, yet there are several 

 very striking variations in them, which are more 

 remarkable than those of larvae. These it is 

 proper here to mention, in order that the reader 

 may be spared the perplexity which would other- 

 wise ensue, were he to imagine that all inactive, 

 or all active pupae, were pretty much alike. Let 

 it never, however, be forgotten, that it is no matter 

 what the variation in form may be, nor does it 

 matter whether the insect is active or inactive, 

 while in this state of passage from the larva to 



