Thus the creature as hatched from the egg is the first instar, after the first moult it has become the second instar, and so on, the number of moults being always one less than the number of INSTARS.
"The Life-Story of Insects"
Geo. H. Carpenter
The preparatory INSTARS of such insects are aquatic; the adult instar is aerial.
"The Life-Story of Insects"
Geo. H. Carpenter
There is no supreme difficulty in supposing that the important change was for these early rudiments to become sunk into the body, so that the cuticle of the second, and, later, of the third and succeeding INSTARS, showed no outward sign of their presence.
"The Life-Story of Insects"
Geo. H. Carpenter
