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hibited there as in the parts more exposed to ob- 

 servation. 



We will now suppose the creature passed through 

 all the changes incidental to the larva state; — this 

 word in Latin means a mask ; in this state the future 

 fly is hidden or masked; Larvce y the word we have 



hitherto used, is the plural — it has eaten its own weight 

 over and over again, may be a hundred times or more, 

 in nettle, or cabbage, or some other leaves, and has 

 now arrived at a ripe old Caterpillar age, so it prepares 

 to go into what is called the pupa state, the second 

 stage of its strange existence. Pupa in Latin means 

 a puppet, a baby, a thing wrapped up, swaddled, as 

 they say, of no particular shape — a lump ; such is a 

 chrysalis, as the insect, in the pupa state, is called. 

 Singular, Chrysalis ; plural, Chrysalides from the Greek 

 chrisos, golden. The Latin authors termed these aure- 



