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enclosed within one entire shell, they are very 

 curiously folded close to the trunk, either against 

 the sides like the wings, underneath the hody, 

 like the antennae of Butterflies, or over the back, 

 like the slender oviduct of the Ichneumons. I 

 may mention here, that the legs of Tipulce — the 

 Harry-long-legs tribe — are triply folded in a very 

 beautiful manner, and that the pupae of some 

 Beetles exhibit curious excrescences, which entirely 

 disappear when the change is complete. 



We must, however, devote the principal part of 

 our attention to the true chrysalides, such as those 

 of Butterflies and Moths, as more likely to be inte- 

 resting to the general reader. Many a naturalist, 

 indeed, has had his attention first called to the 

 subject by the sight of a single chrysalis, that 

 curious and evidently living thing, yet without ' 

 any apparent power of taking nourishment, with- 

 out sight, and without means of locomotion, and 

 yet which contains, as he is told, a perfect Butter- 

 fly — a creature that will in due season break 

 forth from the shell, and expand its wide and 

 beautiful wings, uninjured by their close folding 

 within that narrow prison. De Bambur, in fact, 

 states in one of his works, that the first sight 

 of a chrysalis, when a boy, at once made him an 

 entomological student for life. 



