12 METAMOEPHOSIS. 



Louglegged, active, running, leaping, 

 Doing eveiything but flying ; 

 Eating, too, and very greedy, 

 Gnawing, killing, tearing, sucking ; 

 Shaped exactly like the larvae, 

 And much like the perfect insect. 

 Only that the wings are wanting : 

 These are isomorphous pupae, 

 And the insects Tsomorpha. 

 When the isomorphous pupa 

 Comes to a fourwinged imago. 

 All the wings alike and netlike. 

 And the mouth is formed for biting, 

 With strong bony jaws for biting, 

 Then Neuroptera we call them, 

 Class Neuroptera, or Net Wings. 

 When the wings are straight and rooflike, 

 And the fore wings tough and leathery, 

 And the hind wings clear, and folded 

 Lengthwise neatly underneath them, 

 And the mouth is formed for biting, 

 With strong bony jaws for biting. 

 Then Orthoptera we call them, 

 Class Orthoptera, or Straight Wings. 

 One more class of Isomorpha, 

 One more class, and then the cherries ; 

 Alice and the rest must share them. 

 When an isomorphous pupa 



