Among the moths and butterflies : a revised and enlarged edition of "Insect lives ; or, Born in prison" (1891)
Ballard, Julia P. (Julia Perkins) · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 47
th theskin, new ones having been formed beneath totake their place. These have been so carefullyfolded away that at first they scarcely appear;but they are soon developed, or uncurled, andunbend so suddenly as almostto surprise one. When the caterpillar Isready to make its change intothe chrysalis,… … THE GREEN HOUSE WITH GOLD NAILS. and haftgs, head downward, with the bodycurved, as in Fig. 6. In this position it remains about twenty-four hours when the marvellouschange is wrought—the coatthrown off and the chrysalis(Fig. 7) developed. It was the accidental finding ofthis chrysalis, attached to…
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