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INSECT TRANSFORMATIONS. 



better bear handling. It may be necessary to remark, 

 that though all the parts ot^ the butterfly are in this 

 manner discoverable in the caterpillar, they are only 

 in the bud, it" we may use the expression, and appear to 

 be out of proportion from being so closely folded up and 

 unexpanded. The whole, indeed, bears so much ana- 

 logy to the embryo of a plant in the seed, or the rudi- 



a^^ 



a, greatly magnified view of a section of the bud of the labur- 

 num. It evhibiis the nascent tlovvers, arranged in regular order, 

 previously to their bursting into perfect existence, b. section of 

 a bean seed, c, seed-leaves, root, aud the first true leaf of the 



