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nomous maxillae the poison-fangs. The great body of 
the Orthoptera, the Homopterous Hemiptera, the Lepido- 
piera, and Trichoptera, afford no example of Predaceous 
insects. All the analogies I have here particularized, 
ascending: from the insect, terminate in races of a Corre- 
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sponding character and aspect amongst the Mammalia, 
and thus lead us towards man himself, or rather to men 
in whose minds those bad and malignant qualities prevail, 
which, when accompanied by power, harass and lay waste 
mankind ; and thus ascending from symbol to symbol, we 
arrive at an animal who in his own person unites both 
matter and spirit, and is thus the member both of a vi- 
sible and invisible world : and we are further instructed 
by these symbols, — perpetually recurring under different 
forms, — in the existence of evil and malignant spirits, 
whose object and delight is the corporeal and spiritual 
ruin of the noble creature who is placed at the head of 
the visible works of God. 
The other tribe of animals that I mentioned of a milder 
character, may be looked upon as represented by many 
herbivorous, or not carnivorous, insects ; amongst others, 
the Lamellicorn beetles imitate them by their remai'kable 
horns, so that they wear the aspect of miniature bulls, or 
deer, or antelopes a , or rams, or goats, whether these 
horns are processes of the head or of the upper jaws. 
The gregarious Hymenoptera, some of which form part of 
our domestic treasures, may be regarded in some degree 
as belonging to this department. From insects the 
ascent upwards, with regard to form, is by some of the 
branchiostegous fishes, which symbolize the horns of 
a A remarkable imitation of an antelope's horn, a process of the 
mandible of an insect, in the possession of R. D.AlexandcrjEsq.F.L.S., 
is figured in the fifth Number of the Zoological Journal. 
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