Note 8 — Chapter xvii · THE BULL ONTHOPHAGUS: THE CELL

Lastly, the hatching does not always stop the growth that is not preceded by feeding. For a little while longer the larva continues to increase in size; it completes the work of acquiring stability in its new equilibrium, the equilibrium of a living creature; it improves its physique by supplementary stretching. The Scorpion has already told us this; the grub of the Minotaurus and many others assure us of the same thing. It is, on a smaller scale, what we saw before in the Locust’s wing,8 which, issuing from a very small sheath, soon unfurls into a sail of generous breadth.