420 SYSTEM OF INSECTS. 
cattle; with regard to character, by the various species 
of Cyprinus and other similar genera. — Whether any of 
the reptiles may be looked upon as falling into this 'di- 
vision, I am not sufficiently conversant with them to as- 
sert ; but if any, the Chelonians, or tortoise and turtle 
tribes, are entitled to that distinction. Amongst the birds, 
the Gallincc and Anseres, — from which Orders we derive 
our domestic poultry, whether terrestrial or aquatic, — and 
our game, form the step next below the ruminants, or 
cattle : and we are thus again led towards man, and are 
symbolically instructed in those domestic and social qua- 
lities which endear us to each other, best promote the 
general welfare, and render us most like good spirits and 
the Divinity himself; of whom the perpetual recurrence 
of animals exhibiting these amiable and useful qualities 
is calculated to impress upon us some notion. I might 
mention many more instances of ascending analogies ; as 
from some of the Diptera by the parrots, to the Quadru- 
mancs or monkey tribes — or from some of the lulidcc that 
roll themselves into a ball, to the Armadillo ,• but these 
are sufficient to set your mind at work upon the subject, 
so that you may trace them for yourself. Nor shall I 
occupy your time by pointing out how analogies may be 
traced from insects downwards towards the lowest term 
in the scale of animal life, but proceed to consider the 
analogies observable between insects themselves; in 
which I shall follow the second method lately mentioned, 
and consider them as arranged in parallel series. 
In studying the analogies that take place between in- 
sects themselves, we should always bear in mind that our 
inquiry is not concerning an affinity which demands a 
correspondence in various particulars that are not neces- 
sary to constitute an analogy ; as, for instance, that there 
