OY nat'jke. b 
Sonie 
themselves to walls, with their heads higher 
aiJ MISC1SI.LANEOUS WOtfDERS 
elevated bodies, with their heads undermost. 
bodies, out in various 
horizontal position. 
inclinations : and otliers 
a'.>‘ 
Some fix themselves by a 
spin a rope roumi their middle to prevent them troi" jii! 
I'hose which feed upon trees attach themselves jj,il 
durab'^' 
branches, instead of the leaves, which are le.ss 
subject to a greater variety of accidents. The 
ot the caterpillars give no idea of tliose of the futui'*^ 
The metamorphosis of insects has been regii'de“ _jj jt 
sudden operation, because they often burst their^* hjji 
flies- _ 
>■ 
silky covering quickly,, and immediately appear_ 
with wings. But, by more attentive observation, h 
discovered, tliat the tran.sformation of caterpillars is •' =||‘tl)d 
process Ifom the moment the animals are hatched 
arrive at a state of perfection. Why, it may be y 
caterpillars so frequently cast their skins ? The new » n>' 
other organs, were lodged under the old ones, as 
tubes or cases, and the animal retires from thesn 
because they have become too strait. The reality tt 
encasements has been demonstrated by a simple 
When about to molt or cast its skin, if the forenio» %!'* 
a caterpillar are cut otf, the 
skin deprived of these legs. 
animal comes out 
ot 
From this fact, Ueiun^^’^j ^.oir 
cinr 
jectnred, that the chrysalis might be thus encased, 
cealed under the last skin of the caterpilla 
Hedi^SP 
that the chiy^salis, or rather the buuei tly itself, 
tn the body of the caterpillar, 'Fhe proboscis, 
the limbs, and the wings of the fly, are so 
that they occupy a small space only under the hi'st 
»f the caterpillar. In the first six limbs of the e-’ 
sre encased the six limbs of the butterfly. Fiveu- , 
of the butteifly have been discovered in the I 
before its transformation. _ yol* 
I'rcm these facts it appears, that tlie tr.'m.sle''‘'’®,pof^. 
insecis is only tlie throwing oft' external and . j 
covet lugs, and not an alteration of the pi 
Caiei pillars may he considered as analogous to ,fisfl‘’’^ii 
men and of quadrupeds. They live and receive ^ 
m envelopes till they acquire such a degree o( 
cnablts them to support the situation to \vh'’w** 
iltim; tely destined by Nature. 
