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" There is a difference between a grub and a butterfly, 

 And yet your butterfly was once a grub." Coriolanus. 



CHAPTEK XX. 



ORDER IX. LEPIDOPTERA. 



THE Order LEPIDOPTERA is easily distinguished. It 

 contains the Butterflies and Moths only, and excepting 

 some species with clear and nearly naked membranous 

 wings, and the wingless females of certain other species, 

 which might for a moment perplex a beginner, excepting 

 also a small number which, approaching the Trichoptera 

 in character are a difficulty to the more advanced, Moths 

 and Butterflies are recognised by even the most unob- 

 servant. More than this, not the appearance and names 

 only, but even something of the history of these 

 insects is very generally known, and observation of 

 their caterpillars and chrysalids, or the beautiful sight 

 of the young Moth emerging from the chrysalis, is often 

 the beginning of a taste for the study of insects. 



Their metamorphoses have already been noticed in 



