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folded up in the manner we have here indicated. 

 The wings arc still covered with moisture, so that the 

 powdery down which clothes them is scarcely visible, 

 and they have not yet assumed their beautiful colours 

 and elegant markings, but are of a dusky ash-gray. 

 The legs, however, are already so firm that the insect 

 n)oves them about, and also coils up its sucker, and 

 plays its antennii.'. It is worthy of remark, that the 



a, under side of the chrysalis of the peacock buttprfly. b, the 

 wiuss ami antennae traced out from the same, r, the perfect in- 

 •ectV^"'""" ^'') fully developed. 



