METAMORPHOSIS. 11 



Legs and wings and head and feelers. 

 All enclosed in separate cases, 

 Fitting close, transparent cases : 

 Then we call them necromorphous ; 

 They are living insects deathlike, 

 Or in Latin Necromorpha. 

 When the necromorphous pupa 

 Comes to a fourwinged imago, 

 All the wings quite clear and naked, 

 And all four well formed for flying. 

 And the tail armed with a weapon, 

 Sometimes stinging, always stingiike. 

 Hymen OPTERA we call them, 

 Hymenoptera or Clear Wings ; 

 But if they have two wings only, 

 Covered with two hard wing cases, 

 CoLEOPTERA WO Call them, 

 Coleoptera or Case Wings, 

 Coleoptera or beetles. 

 Then, again, if Necromorpha 

 Have four wings alike and netlike. 

 Oftentimes a little hairy. 

 Meeting in the middle, rooflike, 

 And a tail that's always stingless, 

 Without any piercing weapon, 

 Then Stegoptera we call them. 

 Class Stegoptera, or Roof Wings. 

 Lastly, come some other pupee. 



