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Pupa fignifies doll or baby ; many infefts in th e 
pupa date have fome refemblance to a child wrapped 
in Iwathing cloaths. 
This is called by various names ; as Aurelia, Bean, 
Cod, Cone, Nymph. 
The infeft efcaped from the fecond ftate, in which 
it lay concealed in a kind of prifon or tomb ; appears 
in a more glorious one called the fierfett flate ; it is 
then ftiled the complcat infeft ; is a&ive, furnifhed 
with antennae, which is generally wanted in its other 
ibrms ; and in this (late it always lays its eggs. 
In the perfe£l fhate many infefhs do not feed ; fome 
fubfifton the juice of fruit, or of flowers, which they 
extraft with a probofcis ; orby means of a long tongue* 
when at refT curled up in a fpiral form like the 
fpring of a watch : fome prey upon other infefls ; 
fome on dead animals ; others on plants, &c. &c. 
which will be remarked in the progrefs of the work. 
SENSES. 
Hearing . 
Barbut imagined that the antennae were the organs 
of hearing ; remarking, that as they were hollow and 
jointed, they were fitted to convey founds in a leffen- 
ed degree, beft fuited to the nature of the animal. 
But it remains doubtful for what purpofe the an¬ 
tennae are defigned ; and after being conjettured to 
be the organs of fmelling ; of hearing and by fome 
afferted 
