Whittock, Nathaniel: The Art Of Drawing And Colouring, From Nature, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, And Insects: With Plain And Coloured Drawings, From Original Paintings By Morland, Vernet, Howet, Le Cave, &c. (London, 1830)

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to call the aurelia a chrysalis, or creature made of gold. This trans-
formation always takes place within the cone, and it is only by cutting
it open that the aurelia can be discovered. The aurelia is buried
in the cone for various periods ; some but for a few days, others for
months ; but in all cases, sooner or later, the perfectly formed but-
terssy bursts from its imprisonment, after struggling for a time to
shake off the encrustation that covered it when an aurelia. As soon
as it has made its way through the cone it remains quiet for a time,
its legs and wings, from their wet state, being close to its body ; in a
short time the wings begin to expand, and in about half an hour they
are persectly dry, their wrinkles entirely disappear, and the little
animal assumes all its splendour. The wings of the butterssy fully
distinguish them from ssies of every other kind; they are four in
number, and if two of them are cut off the animal can ssy with those
that remain.
The number of these beautiful animals is so great, that the cata-
logue of their names is very incomplete. Though Linnaeus has reckoned
up above seven hundred and sixty different kinds, every collector of
butterssies can show undescribed species. Butterssies and moths are
much larger, and more variegated and beautiful, in warm than in cold
climates.
As this work is not intended to instruct the entomologist in the
different names and species of these beautiful insects, but merely to give
directions for drawing and colouring them, their names are not given