47'i 
II1STOKY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
OllDKll. SiiCTION. 
Family. 
Tuibe. 
Culicides. 
"Nemocera. ■* 
t Tipulariae. 
("Tabanii. 
Sicarii. 
Mydasii. 
Leptides. 
Dolichopoda. 
"I -^ Tanystoma. <( Asilici. 
Hybotina. 
Empides. 
Anthracii. 
Bombyliarii. 
^Vesiculosa. 
D: 4 x' . .1 \ Xvlophasjei. 
I otratyomides. 
fSyrphias. 
| Conopsariae. 
_Athericera. -^ CEstrides. 
SuflTlUBE. 
["Culiciformes. 
j Gallicolac. 
..<( Terricolae. 
| Fungivorae. 
LFlorales. 
LMuscides 
( I J <[ Pupiparae. 
S ( loriaceae. 
t Phthiromyiae 
pCryptogastras. 
I Creophilae. 
I Carpomyzas. 
.<( Dolichocerae. 
I Gonocephalae. 
I Scathophilse. 
|_Aptera?. 
If you examine the Orders as here given, you will 
find that they mostly represent natural primary groups 
of his Classes, though with regard to their distribution 
3011 may perhaps feel disposed to differ from him. You 
will also think that his secondary and minor groups b , with 
the exception of some of his sections, merit the same 
character. Indeed, he has left far behind all his prede- 
3 These tables, except the first, are taken from the Families Naturellcs 
du Regne Animal. As a new edition of M. Le Baron Cuvier's Rcgne 
Animal is preparing, M. Latreille will doubtless give in it a still more 
improved arrangement of the Crustacea, Arachnida, and Insecta. 
b Several of the minor groups given in the table he has further re- 
solved before lie arrives at his geneva. 
