Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology: The larval shelter of a caddis-worm, or other similar larval case.
- noun The sheath in which an insect having a complete metamorphosis passes the pupa stage.
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Examples
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-- But then she wanted to know how the butterfly's large wings could grow in the small space of the pupa-case.
The Adventures of Maya the Bee Waldemar Bonsels 1919
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The Merodon Narcissa probably lives in the soil, or in rotten wood, as the pupa-case has no respiratory tube, having instead a very short, sessile, truncated tube, scarcely as long as it is thick.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The Wine fly is also a Piophila, and lives the life of a perpetual toper in old wine casks, and partially emptied beer, cider and wine bottles, where, with its pupa-case (Fig. 91), it may be found floating dead in its favorite beverage.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The singular rat-tailed pupa-case of Eristalis (Fig. 77) lives in water, and when in want of air, protrudes its long respiratory tube out into the air.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The larva of a Sargus-like form which feeds on offal, transforms into a flattened pupa-case (Fig. 87), provided with long, scattered hairs.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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In the wingless Sheep tick (Melophagus ovinus, Fig. 94, with the pupa-case on the left), the body is wingless and very hairy, and the proboscis is very long.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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No one has traced the transformations of this fly in our country, but we copy from Bouché's work on the transformations of insects, the rather rude figures of the larva (Fig. 85), and pupa-case (_a_) of the Musca domestica of Europe, which is supposed to be our species.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The pupa-case, or puparium, is dark reddish-brown, and three lines in length.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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But Arsinoe only remembered these things to-day as a butterfly sporting in the sun may remember the hideous pupa-case that it has burst and left behind it.
The Emperor — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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But Arsinoe only remembered these things to-day as a butterfly sporting in the sun may remember the hideous pupa-case that it has burst and left behind it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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