"Hypermetamorphosis" Quotes from Famous Books
... floes of Spitzbergen to the dunes of Gascony, from a Carlovingian charter to the flora of the Sahara, from the progress in beetroot growing to Caesar's trenches before Alesia. When my turn came, he questioned me upon the hypermetamorphosis of the Meloidae [a beetle family including the oil beetle and the Spanish fly], my last essay in entomology. I answered as best I could, floundering a little in the proper mode of address, mixing ... — The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre |