Pupa

(pu'pah,) pl. PUPÆ. [L., a puppet.] (Zool.) The second stage of insect life after the hatching of the egg. In those insects in which the metamorphosis is complete, the pupa is generally quite inactive, and takes no food. It is the case in the Lepidoptera, the pupa of which is called a chrysalis. It is quite otherwise with the pup se of other orders, which are often very voracious, and resemble the perfect insect in almost everything but that the wings are wanting. See INSECTS. [s. 742]