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tioned. Any one who looks at an anopluriform cater- 

 pillar, must be struck by the excessive size of the head, 

 — often broader than the body, from which it is so far 

 removed, as to appear attached to it by a peduncle. 

 Dr. Horsfield, therefore, j ustly characterised these larvae 

 as having " a very large head, attached to the body by a 

 long neck." Now, the Cirrhipedes, properly speaking, 

 have no head ; but that part of the animal which corre- 

 sponds thereto, and where the mouth is situated, is ele- 

 vated on a long fleshy slender peduncle ; so that the 

 thickest part of the creature is that where the mouth 

 is situated. Such, in fact, is an anopluriform larva ; 

 the head, where the mouth is placed, is the thickest part 

 of the animal ; so that the figure of a pedunculated bar- 

 nacle may be termed a rude sketch of that form which 

 Nature developes more accurately in the larva of a 

 Hesperia, and brings to the highest perfection in the 

 quadrupeds, under the form of the whale, — that is, in 

 the most perfect of all her groups. We make no apo- 

 logy to the reader for this apparent digression ; for 

 what can be more delightful than to trace the varied 

 yet consistent operations of Nature through the endless 

 diversity of forms she spreads before us. We have 

 shown that the primary types of caterpillars represent 

 the primary divisions of quadrupeds and of birds, and 

 that these three important groups are again represented 

 by the great divisions of Annulosa. It is impossible to 

 believe that results, so uniformly consistent with each 

 other, can be founded but on the true symbolical system 

 of Nature. We hope, therefore, to have now demon- 

 strated our original proposition ; namely, that the groups 

 of the Annulosa represent those of the Fertebrata, and 

 that the principles of variation, in one and the other, 

 are precisely the same. The following table, therefore, 

 concentrates all we have said in this paragraph : — 



F 4 



