CHAPTER III. 



OF THE PUPA, OR CHRYSALIS STATE. 



FROM the resemblance of the animal in this condition 

 to a mummy, or a child swathed in close trusses, 

 which is a practice of many of the northern nations, 

 particularly the Laplanders, Linnaeus gave the chry- 

 salis this name. 



THE PUPA OF THE PEACOCK BUTTERFLY. 

 Plate 1. Upper Figure. 



OTHER terms used for this state are the chrysalis, 

 and the aurelia ; the former from a Greek word, and 

 the latter from a Latin word. Various species of 

 lepidopterous insects, previous to this condition, spin 

 for themselves a casement of silky filaments, which 

 naturalists term the cocoon. In this they lie con- 

 cealed, until their final change. 



