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A DESCRIPTION OF 
spects it only differs from the mouths of the masticating 
mandibulated orders in the smallness of its parts. The 
antennae vary in the different kinds ; but all the diurnal 
lepidoptera, or butterflies, have each antenna, terminated 
by a small inflation or knob ; while in the nocturnal spe- 
cies, or moth?, the antennae taper to a point, and are often 
feathery, or comb-shaped. The transformations of the 
species belonging to this order are all complete. 
THE MOTH WITH ITS CHRYSALIS AND, 
CATERPILLAR. 
At once came first whatever creeps the ground, 
Insect or worm. Those waved their limber fans 
For wings, and smallest lineaments exact 
In all the liveries deck'd of summer's pride, 
With spots of gold and purple, azure and green. 
MILTON. 
THE larva of all the lepidoptera, is a caterpillar composed 
of twelve ring-like segments, exclusive of the head, which 
is harder than the other parts, and always of a deeper co- 
lour than the body. Each caterpillar has nine breathing- 
holes on each side ; and each of the three segments nearest 
the head, are furnished with a pair of short legs ending in 
a kind of claw, which are the true legs of the insect. The 
