24 
After breakfast. I developed my plates 
and could then see and note down the 
eradual but most rapid development of the 
butterfly ; 
emerged so fast that I only gave an exposure 
of one-hundredth of a second for Nos. 3 to 7 
inclusive ; 
after these, 
I gave a 
little more. 
The first 
inthnation 
that I had 
was seeing 
the chrys- 
ahs split 
open at 
the back of 
the head 
and under 
the eyes; 
IME > aie 
hair of the 
thorax was 
which as soon as the skin split, 
Tig. 7. 
soon  visl- 
ble, fol- 
lowed by 
the 
heaval — of 
the whole 
front of 
the chrys- 
alis (Fug. 
3), then 
appeared 
the anten- 
up- 
nae, and 
lees (Fig. 
4) pushing 
forward, as 
the 
bryo wings 
em - 
Wig. 9. 
side night 
developed 
and 
exercised a 
and left (fig. 5), which soon 
into the bursting forth of the 
antennae, and at the same moment, the body 
was quickly drawn out (Fig. 6), and the 
new born butterfly hung suspended to the 
empty chrysalis, which immediately (owing 
vigorous pressure 
legs 
Animal Life 
to the elasticity of skim) closed up and 
looked like a hvine one (Fug. 7), the 
wine bulging out like a fire balloon 
being filled. An occasional flap seemed 
to bring the edges together (vg. 8), and 
when the 
chrysalis 
first split, 
the butter- 
the time 
in seven minutes from 
fly was 
fully devel- 
oped (Fug. 
9), though 
not ready 
for flight. 
When it 
displayed 
its face 
to me, I 
could not 
help com- 
paring it 
to some 
exquisite 
coxcomb 
with hai: 
brushed up 
its 
head in the 
Over 
most per- 
fect man- 
ner; not a 
hair out of 
place! and 
the  deli- 
cate pink 
tinted an- 
fennae, 
and what 
I can only 
aa term, the 
absolute 
perfection of every part both in form 
and colour, made such an impression upon 
which I shall never forget 
Let conclude with a 
my iind 
(Fig. 10). 
quotation :— 
me 
“Lovely indeed the mimic works of man, 
But Nature’s work far lovelier.”’ 
