&OUND THE INDIAN MUSEUM. 



" Did you not tell us," stammered Charu, to whom the 

 above question was addressed, and who stood gravely 

 stroking his beardless chin, "that the bodies of all insects 

 are made up of rings or segments." 



" I admit I said so. Am I wrong ?" 



"Oh no. I don't mean that. What I mean is that 

 I have here found certain other animals, the bodies of 

 which also appear to be made up of segments." 



" Indeed ! show us, please." 



" Here are some prawn-like creatures, and there, some 

 spiders too, whose bodies have segments." 



I am very much pleased with you. It clearly shows 

 that you have that spirit of enquiry which is so essential 

 to the investigation of truth. You are perfectly right ; 

 the prawn and the spider, and, for that matter, the crab, 

 scorpions and many others like them have also segment- 

 ed bodies, and are therefore related to the insects. But, 

 then, if you closely examine and compare a prawn, or 

 a spider, with either a butterfly or a mosquito or a 

 grasshopper, you will at once see that, although all of 

 them have segmented bodies, the two former differ 

 greatly from each other and from the three latter, in 

 other respects, Just take a butterfly and a prawn as 

 objects of comparison, and prepare a rough tabular state- 

 ment of the parts you notice in each. 



BUTTERFLY. 



I. Body composed of seg- I. Body composed of seg- 

 ments and divided into ments : regions not 

 three distinct regions, distinct 



