306 FLASHLIGHTS ON NATURE 



In No. 14 you see her, then, free, but resting. 

 She has now shaken herself out, and left her empty 

 mummy-case imprisoned at her side in the sheath 

 which holds it. Its fate no longer interests her. 

 Then she crawls a little way along the surface of 

 the barley stem, and presently, clasping it with 



NO. 14. HANGING HERSELF UP TO DRY. 



her four front legs, she hangs herself up, tail 

 downward, to dry in the sunshine. No. 14 graphi- 

 cally represents this curious position. Almost all 

 flying insects, when they emerge from the chrysalis 

 stage, do something analogous. Their wings are 

 still club-like, their antennae undeveloped or not 



