CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 17 
ings of many Insects often surpass those of birds in the skill 
displayed in their construction, etc., as the vespiaries, or 
artificial dwellings of Wasps, or the tents of the Tent-cater- 
pillar, or the variously constructed cocoons of Butterflies. 
But we can not enlarge more upon these qualities, as they 
will be mentioned in the descriptions of the different Insects. 
According to the improved, ingenious arrangement of 
Linneus, Insects are divided into the following seven or- 
ders, viz. : 
I. Coleoptera. Brrties or Cuarers.—All Insects with horny 
bodies, six legs, and four wings, of which the up- 
per ones are horny, and ‘the lower ones parch- 
ment-like, as the Stag-beetle, May-beetle, ete. 
Il. Hemiptera. Bucs.—All Insects with four parchment-like 
wings, six legs, and who obtain their nourishment 
by sucking with a movable proboscis, as the Ci- 
cadas, Plant-lice, Bed-bugs, etc. 
III. Orthoptera. STRAIGHT-WINGED Insects. —Insects with four 
parchment-like wings, of which the upper ones 
overlap on the back, and the two under ones are 
thin and folded together like a fan. They differ 
from those of the preceding order in that they 
have strong jaws instead of a movable proboscis, 
as, e. g., the Grasshopper, Cricket, and many 
others. 
IV. Lepidoptera. Butterriies, HawK-mortus, and Morus.—In- 
sects with four expanded wings, covered with col- 
ored farinaceous scales. 
V. Neuroptera. NetT-wtxcepD Insects.—Those which have four 
transparent, net-woven, or lattice-like wings, as 
the Dragon-fly, ete. 
VI. Hymenoptera. VeIN-WINGED Insects.—With four transparent, 
veined wings, and generally provided with a yen- 
omous sting, as Bees, Wasps, ete. 
VI. Diptera. Two-winceD Insects.—As Flies and Mosqui- 
toes. 
