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with safety (Termes fatalis L., Termes bellicosus Smzatum.) Below, 
in the middle of the building, is the residence of the female (mon- 
strous is the distension of the abdomen in a pregnant female which 
lays perhaps 80,000 eggs) ; round about this residence are cells for 
the eggs, magazines for food, &c., all orderly arranged. The upper- 
most part of the hill-like dwelling is massive, to give more firm: 
ness, and to guard the family from the influence of weather and t 
attacks of foes. It is generally supposed that the labour of building 
in these societies is performed by the larve, but perhaps it is by the 
sexless individuals who have not got their wings; they have no 
eyes. There are still other wingless individuals, also without eyes, 
but with larger jaws ; these are commonly called soldiers, because 
they ward off attacks and always stand at guard. When these 
insects attain their perfect state they leave the dwelling at night- 
time ; on the day following their dried wings fall off, and they are 
in great part eaten up by birds, lizards, and even by the negroes. 
A fertilised female is borne off by the larvee to a dwelling, and there 
she lays her eggs. According to SmearHman the workers would 
seem to carry off a male and a female with them, in order to shut 
them up and feed them for copulation. 
Comp. SMEATHMAN in Philosophical Transactions, Vol, LXx1. 1781. The 
figures are copied in part by BLuMENBACH in Abbildungen naturhistoris- 
cher Gegenstinde, Nos. 9, to. 
Add genus Hmbia Larr. Head broader than thorax. Wings 
not longer than body. ‘Tarsi triarticulate. 
OrpDER X. Hemiptera. 
Hexapod Insects, with four wings, all membranous or anterior 
coriaceous at base, thicker. Mouth with articulate rostrum (labium), 
which ensheathes sete (mandibles and maxille) ; palps none. Me- 
tamorphosis, with few exceptions, incomplete. 
Half-winged (Hemiptera from fous half, and rrepov). This 
order originated indeed with Lixn aus, but is now limited differently, 
since the Orthoptera have been separated from it as a distinct order. 
Fasricius, who also placed the flea here, named the half-winged 
insects Léhyngota, which name Burmeister properly changed into 
Lhyncohta. On this order, amongst other works, we notice : 
J. C. Fasricu Systema Lhyngotorum. Brunsvigze, 1803, 8vo ; 
Hist. nat. des Insectes Hemiptéres, par C. J. B. Amyor et AUDINET 
