Locusta Jlavipes . 



CHAPTER VIII. 



ORTHOPTERA. 



Fully equal to the Coleoptera in the perfect deve- 

 lopment of the organs of the mouthy the Orthoptera 

 also agree with the Beetles to a certain extent in 

 other points of their structure. There are, however, 

 abundance of characters by which they may be 

 separated, but none of these are of more import- 

 ance than the nature of the metamorphosis, which 

 in all the Orthoptera is of the kind called incomplete, 

 whilst in some cases we can hardly say that there 

 is any metamorphosis at all. The young of the 

 ordinary insects of this order, when they quit the 

 egg, closely resemble their parents, except that they 

 are destitute of the wings with which the latter 

 are usually provided ; they continue growing and 



