THE FOUR STAGES. 7 



That will show us, that wiU tell us, 

 All about the world of insects. 



Flying insects have four stages, 

 States or stages as you like it, 

 In their very brief existence ; 

 And in what I teach hereafter, 

 Tu our country walks together, 

 I shall mention very often 

 Larva, pupa and imago. 

 The more common of these stages. 

 Learn, then, first, the names we call them. 

 First, the Egg. Upon these paUngs 

 See this web so dingy looking, 

 And these round things glued upon it. 

 Sticking side by side together. 

 Very much hke pins' heads flattened : 

 These are eggs, and their hereafter 

 Will be different as Laura's. 

 Look again ; see where the privet 

 Overtops the lofty palings ; 

 See this giant cateq^illar. 

 Smooth and of a bright green colour, 

 Marked along each side with stripings 

 Of a most delicious purple : 

 This, my pupil, is a Larva, 

 Larva, grub or caterpillar. 

 Look again upon the palings ; 

 See another web, and in it 



