418 SYSTEM OF INSECTS. 
to entrap and destroy other insects. They may usually be 
known by their powerful jaws or instruments of suction ; 
by their prominent or ferocious eyes ; by the swiftness 
of their motions, either on the earth, in the air, or in the 
water ; by their fraud and artifice in lying in wait for 
their prey. Amongst the Coleoptera, the Predaceous 
beetles, — including the Linnean genera Cicindela, Card- 
bus a , Dytiscus, and Gyrinus, — are of this description ; 
and they symbolize those higher animals that by open 
violence attack and devour their prey : — for instance, the 
sharks, pikes, &c, amongst the fishes ; the eagles, hawks, 
&c, amongst the birds ; and the whole feline genus 
amongst the beasts. Similar characters give a similar 
relation of analogy to the Mantida: and Libellulina 
amongst the Orthoptera and Neuroptera. The whole 
family of Arachne, the larvae of the Myrmeleonina, &c, 
portray those animals that to ferocity add cunning and 
stratagem, or suck the blood of their victims. The My- 
riapods symbolize in a striking manner the Ophidian 
reptiles. Look at an lulus, and both in its motions and 
form you will acknowledge that it represents a living ser- 
pent ; next turn your eyes to a centipede or ScoIqpe?idra 9 
and you will find it nearly an exact model of the skele- 
ton of a dead one, the flat segments of its body resem- 
bling the vertebrae, its curving legs the ribs, and its ve- 
8 A most singular insect belonging to this tribe, and which seems 
to form a link, having a notched cubit, between the Amaurona and 
the Lamprona, has been described and figured by Hagenbach under 
the name of Mormolyce phyllodes. It exhibits such a striking resem- 
blance to a Mantis or Phasma, that it might be mistaken for one. It 
was found on the western side of the island of Java. Mr. Samouelle 
showed me a second species of this genus from China, belonging to 
a lady, who put it into his hands, it being broken, to put together. 
