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EMERGENCE OF A BUTTERFLY. 



By E. Duckinfield Jones, C.E. 



HAVING been much interested in photo- 

 graphing the development of the wings of 

 Morpho epistrophis on its emergence, it has 

 occurred to me that perhaps you might like to 

 have the series for Science-Gossip. 



however, it kept up a continual slight twisting 

 motion of the body for the first minute, and it 

 was only at the end of that time that I could get 

 my first plate exposed. 



Fig. a was taken one minute after emergence ; 



Morpho Epistkophis. 



a, 1 minute after emerging ; b, 3 minutes after ; c, 5 minutes after ; d, 9 minutes after ; 



e, 15 minutes after emergence. All f natural size. 



I observed the butterfly crack the shell and fig. b was taken three minutes after; fig. c 



emerge from the chrysalis, and, having everything five minutes later; fig. d nine minutes after; 



in readiness, was prepared to take my first photo- fig. e fifteen minutes after emergence from the pupa. 



graph as soon as the insect settled itself in In fifteen minutes the wings were full size,, 



position with the wings hanging down. I found, but still perfectly flaccid. An hour later the 



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