. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . ISO 131. OF BlRDSj FISH, &C. 271 ^ible; but in so soft a state, that the smallesttouch can discompose them. The animalnow becomes helpless and motionless. Immediately after being stripped of its cater-pillar skin, it is of a green colour, especiallyin those parts which are distended by an extra-ordinary afflux of animal moisture; but in ten ortwelve hours after being thus exposed, its partsharden, and the air forms its external cover-ing into a hard crust. From the beautiful andresplendent colour, with which it is thus some-times
. Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles . ISO 131. OF BlRDSj FISH, &C. 271 ^ible; but in so soft a state, that the smallesttouch can discompose them. The animalnow becomes helpless and motionless. Immediately after being stripped of its cater-pillar skin, it is of a green colour, especiallyin those parts which are distended by an extra-ordinary afflux of animal moisture; but in ten ortwelve hours after being thus exposed, its partsharden, and the air forms its external cover-ing into a hard crust. From the beautiful andresplendent colour, with which it is thus some-times adorned, some authors have called it achrysalis, implying a creature made of gold. Tlie hutterfiij does not continue so long un-der the form of an uurelia, as one would beapt to imagine. In general, those caterpillarsthat provide themselves with cones, continuewithin them but a few days after the cone iscompletely finished. Some, however, remainburied in this artificial covering for eight ornine months, without taking the smallest suste-nance during the w
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