There follows a moment of repose, while the supporting limbs stiffen in an unbreakable hold.

Then the thorax splits along the back, and through the fissure the insect slowly emerges.

The whole process lasts perhaps half an hour.
There is the adult insect, freed of its mask, and how different from what it was but how! The wings are heavy, moist, transparent, with nervures of a tender green.

The thorax is barely clouded with brown.

All the rest of the body is a pale green, whitish in places.