...In time she will moult her feathers, and I shall see her snow-white form... 
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...It is now readyto moult its last caterpillar skin and become a chrysalis...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...Dickerson, describesthe process in these words: "In this final moult the chrysalishas to work very hard...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...Two or perhaps three such nests maybe made from the time the caterpillar hatches until afterthe second moult...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...They remain in these cases until thetime for the first moult, when they are likely to line the insideof the silken web before moulting...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...If killing is not done within aweek after this moult starts they will begin to loseflesh and it will be some time before they will fattenagain...
Harry M. Lamon 「Ducks and Geese」
...Then they moult andsometimes lose so many feathers they are unable to fly...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...I have just witnessed a moving spectacle: the last moult of a locust;the emergence of the adult from its larval envelope...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...At the given time, and after the body of the adult has fully formedbeneath the chrysalis skin, there is another moult, and the butterfly,with baggy, wet wings, creeps out...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...When such a moult is about to take place the cuticle separates from theunderlying epidermis, and a fluid collects beneath...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
...In the adult stage,both sexes possess cercopods, but the males only have stylets, those ofthe female disappearing at the final moult...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
...Allthe larval and nymphal instars are active, and the wing-rudiments areoutwardly visible long before the final moult...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
...After each moult some changes indetail may be observable, for example in the proportions of thebody-segments or their outgrowths, in the colour or the closeness of thehairy or spiny armature...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
...The sensitiveness dies away asthe caterpillar grows older, since little or no change of hue inresponse to a change of environment could be induced after thepenultimate moult...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
...It has been shown by and others, that the colour of abutterfly pupa is to some extent affected by the surroundings of thecaterpillar just before its last moult...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
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