OF INSECTS. u 



As to fwX, thefe animals are either 

 male or female ', which propagate their fpe- 

 cies ; or neuter 's, which are incapable of ge- 

 neration, and feem to be devoted to the 

 fervice of the other more perfect in- 

 lefts. 



The met amor phofis in many infedts, is 

 threefold, and confifts in a change of ftruc- 

 ture, effected by the fubjedl carting the 

 different coats in which the perfedt 

 infe£t is included, and as it were con- 

 cealed. 



The egg, containing the infeft in its 

 imalleft fize, or iirft ftate, is expelled from 

 the ovary, as in other oviparous ani- 

 mals. 



From the egg is produced the larva, or 

 caterpillar, which is of a moift or humid 

 fubftance, fofter and larger than the egg, 

 is without wings, fterile, or incapable of 

 generation, flow in its motion, and is al- 

 ways exceedingly voracious when it meets 

 with the food to which it is mod addidled; 



but 



