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OBSERVATIONS. 



LINNEUS, in the Fimdamenta Entomologies^ 

 jhas given ^/bwr primary divisions of an insect; but; 

 since those parts, which he has inchided under his 

 divirsion urtiis, are all attached to the truncus, it 

 eeems most natural to consider them only as mem- 

 bers of that part ; so the antenn<^, maxilliS, lahium, 

 ^yvApvoJ^ascis are included under the division, caput, 

 and the genitalia and aculeus under abdomen. I 

 have therefore ventured, in this instance, to depart 

 in some degree from the definitions of that ad- 

 mirable paper; and I do this with the less hesi- 

 tation, since I have not been guided solely by my 

 own judgment, but can plead the authority of Pro- 

 fessor Afzelius, to whom I once shewed the outline 

 of the above table, for this mode of division. 



- ■Fades. This term I have employed instead of 

 frons, to denote the upper side of the head, using 

 , the latter in a more confined sense. 

 ^i'iiNusus-^ The part intended by this word, has 

 been noticed particularly by no author, that 

 I have had aft opportunity of consulting, ex- 

 cept De Geer, who mistakes it, in Formica^ for 

 the lip («), from which it is very distinct, and 

 LatreiRei 'Who names it le chaperon. It is often 

 separated from the yro?^^ by. a suture, and in some 



(c) Xcan.. 2. p. 2. Mem. 18. pr 1056. ^ab, 41. ^.5.. /,> 



