E-text prepared by Bryan Ness, Turgut Dincer, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38207-h.htm or 38207-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38207/38207-h/38207-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38207/38207-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/onoriginmetamorp00lubb +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | All non-italic genus names in the text have been italicized. | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: NATURE SERIES] ORIGIN AND METAMORPHOSES OF INSECTS. [Illustration] Nature Series ON THE ORIGIN AND METAMORPHOSES OF INSECTS BY Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D. Principal of the London Working Men's College; President of the London Chamber of Commerce; and Vice-Chairman of the London County Council With Numerous Illustrations London Macmillan and Co. and New York 1890 The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, London and Bungay. First Edition 1873. Reprinted 1874. New Edition 1890. PREFACE.