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appears when perfect, lies concealed, 

 inveloped only in its tender wings, and 

 putting 011 a foft and pulpy appearance ; 

 infomuch that Swammerdam was able 

 to demonftrate the Butterfly with its 

 wings to exift in a Caterpillar, though 

 it bore but a faint refemblance to its fu- 

 ture perfection. The infect, therefore-, 

 in this ftate, undergoes no other alte» 

 ration but the change of its fkin. 



The Larv^e are, for the mofr. part, 

 larger than the infect when perfecl:, and 

 are very voracious. The Caterpillar o-f 

 the cabbage Butterfly eats double what 

 it would feem to require from its fize ; 

 but its growth is not adequate to its vo- 

 racity. 



Pupa. The infecl: in this flate was 

 fbrmerly called Chryfalis, or AureEa ; 

 but as the appearance of gildingis con- 

 fined to a few Butterflies only, the term 

 of Pupa has been adopted ni its ftead, 



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