in colour, form, and circumstances. The egg is called the first state, and the insect that is hatched from it, whether caterpillar, worm, maggot, or grub, is denominated the larva; which signifies a mask, because in that state the perfect insect is concealed in another form. The third state corresponds with your brown bean, and is most properly expressed by the term pupa, from its fancied resemblance to a doll wrapped iii swaddling clothes. It was formerly called the chrysalis, or aurelia ; and is still distinguished by different names, as cod, cone, or nymph. The lest change is into the perfect insect, frequently rising from a torpid, inanimate state, to soar in the air, and rove with painted wings from flower to flower. May not these changes be considered an ein 1)1cm of the transitions of mortal men to a glorified existence in the mansions of bliss?

The larva of most insects is extremely voracious, but in the perfect state some eat nothing, others subsist on the juice of fruit or flowers, which they extract with a proboscis or a long tongue this, when at rest, is curled up in a spiral. form, like the spring of a watch. Vari otis other food is eaten by different tribes, as we shall perceive in the progress of our ex imioation of the properties of each. Variety appears to be a standing law of nature: the

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