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that it may often be mistaken for the insect itself, 

 when it is found clinging to the place where it has 

 gone through its changes. 



Before we leave the subject of the 

 wings, it must be mentioned that 

 there are some insects which have 

 none. The cut represents a beetle 



Of this claSS. Winglett Beetle. 



If the reader will now take a peep into one of 

 the nurse-boxes in which he may have been rearing 

 butterflies from the pupge, presuming that several 

 of them have ere this burst from their cases, and 

 are fluttering about anxious for liberty, he will 

 generally detect upon the bottom or sides of the 

 box one or two marks of a somewhat reddish 

 colour; sometimes, indeed, they are very red. These 

 spots are produced by the insect, which, on its 

 emergence from the pupa, generally deposits a 

 drop of fluid from its intestines. Almost all 

 insects perform the same action at this period; 

 but we may well remark with Reaumur, it could 

 scarcely have been supposed, that the excrements 

 of a butterfly should ever have filled the minds of 

 a whole population with terror. Such has, how- 

 ever, been the case, and may, perhaps, yet be in 



