ORDER II. 
BUGS—(HEMIPTERA). 
As no human eye can ever penetrate the spangled heay- 
ens that roll over us, covered with ruby and sapphire, and 
the thousand changing tints that dye the firmament—as no 
created being can ever bring into his scope of vision that 
illimitable space, where the glittering stars unceasingly 
twinkle and glow, and where, o’erarching all, the Milky 
Way presents the blended light of billions of shining worlds 
—so no human mind can ever attain perfection in the 
knowledge of those countless animated beings which sur- 
round man in the vast green temple of Nature. The ut- 
most expansion of the human intellect can comprehend only 
a small part of the wondrous nature, life, and character of 
the animated masses around him. The most gifted genius 
and the highest cultivation, combined with the longest ex- 
perience, can only bring man to a knowledge of his igno- 
rance and incompetence, and the burning thirst for more 
knowledge will only be satiated in adoring what it can not 
comprehend. ‘True, ‘immortal longings are within us,” but 
mortal limits surround us on every side, and he who has 
approached even these the nearest will be abashed at the 
immensity still before him, and can only bow in humility 
before the great Creating Soul of the Universe, the all-wise, 
all-mighty, and all-loving Father—the same incomprehensi- 
ble Being who has animated the mountainous bony frame of 
the Elephant, and built with wondrous skill and nicety the 
delicate structures of those little living, moving atoms we 
call Bugs! and not only has breathed into them the breath 
of life, but, more wonderful still, has provided them with 
