INSECT GILDING. 



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exhibit in common only, we believe, with some of the most 

 highly decorated of fishes l and of serpents ? 2 



From its appearing most frequently on the enclosing cases 

 of butterflies when in their pupa forms, these have obtained, 

 with the pupae of moths also, the name of Chrysalides and 

 Aureliae. This gilding is easily to be observed in August among 

 the chrysalides of the small tortoiseshell butterfly (Vanessa 

 Urticce), which are often to be found suspended, head down- 

 wards, on the nettle-stalks they have stripped, or on some con- 

 venient wall or pale adjacent. 3 The aurelia of the " Painted 

 Lady" 4 is another which well deserves its name for the gold- 

 like streaks and speckles which variegate its clouded surface. 



1 As the Gold and Silver, the John-Dorey, the Gilt-head, the Scomber 

 entrains, &C. 



2 As the Coluber Atratulla, resplendent in scales of burnished gold, &c. 



3 See Vignette. * Cynthia Cardui. 



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