. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. ect has onceentered its perfect state, it is believed to undergo no further meta-morphosis or change of covering. But there exists an apparentexception to this general law in the Ephcuicyidce, which are notedfor the shortness of their existence in the ima
. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others. ect has onceentered its perfect state, it is believed to undergo no further meta-morphosis or change of covering. But there exists an apparentexception to this general law in the Ephcuicyidce, which are notedfor the shortness of their existence in the imago state. Whenthese insects have crept out of the water and rid themselves of thepupa covering, and their wings become expanded, they soon takeflight, but their first movements in the air are performed with somedifficulty, and they shortly alight again and throw off a very deli-cate membrane with which every part of the body has beencovered, and then resume their flight with increased activity. Thecondition of the insect previous to this final change has beencalled the pseud-imago state. The structural changes which occur during metamorphosis arecertainly equalled, in the interest they must excite, by the psy-chical ; and the habits, instincts, and passions witnessed duringthe different phases of existence are indeed most diverse. F 2. CHAPTER IV. THE LEriDOPTERA. There is some advantage in commencing the description of themetamorphoses of insects with the Lepidopteray for nearly every-body knows something about their transformations. No one has any hesitation in distinguishing an insect of thisorder, for its shape proclaims it to be a butterfly or a moth atonce. The very name, scale-wing {Lcpidoptera), calls up delicate andairy forms with elegant proportions and beautiful colouring. The wings, usually very large in proportion to the body, givethat peculiar jerking flight to most of the Lcpidoptera whichattracts the attention. There are four wings, each formed by adouble laye
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