stage, 



,\\\ VM u. 

 'ple 



f mnd in swaddling- 



ess and unKXmiK i waits its trans- 



formation, Its tender flesh is hardly solid; its limbs are 

 as crystals, and ar* held fixed in their place, 

 should distum rhe work of development. 

 Tn thi ti.nf way, to secure his recovery, a patient whose 

 held hound in the surgeon's bandages. 

 .- a strange reversal of the usual state of 

 ? stupendous task u laid upon the pupa of the 

 it is the pupa that has to toil, to strive, to ex- 

 s to burst the wall and open the way 

 pupa tails the desperate duty, to -the full- 

 P" - ?he joy ot resting in the sun. The result of 



rf.i*te !?:nu-:.ual renditions is that the pupa possesses a 

 str;m.jyr<- ^nd comphcatcd s^t of tools that is in no way 

 suggested by the grub nor recalled by the perfect Fly. 

 This srt of tools includes a collection of ploughshares, 

 gimlets, hooks, spears, and other implements that are nor 

 found in our trades nor named in our dictionaries. J 

 will do my bes? to describe the strange gear. 



By the rime that July is nearly over the Anthrax 1- 

 iimhed eating thr Bee-grub. From that time until 

 following May it lies motionless in the Mason-bf 

 , beside the remains of its victim. When 



