280 INSECTS. 
English writers have transposed the families grillidoB 
and locustidcB to suit the popular translation of the 
Scriptures, and have introduced a separate order called 
tricJiojjytera. 
As they are principally minute objects, wise men 
wisely concluded the deficiency should be made up in 
length of name, and but one class appears under the 
weight of less than four syllables. The families compos- 
ing these orders are almost innumerable, and only those 
that are allied to the subject in hand can even be men- 
tioned. Amateur entomologists prefer the coleoj)tera for 
their beauty and variety, and collections of insects are 
mainly composed of brilliant, gaudy and wondrous bee- 
tles, varying in size from the giant, as large as the pretty 
fist of one of the reader's little female acquaintances, to 
the pigmy that is hardly perceptible to the eye. There 
is the beautiful and useful lady-bird, the wonderful light- 
ning-bug, the elephant beetle with trunk and tusks, the 
hercules with stout heavy limbs, the palm weevil, whose 
disgusting grubs are eaten as delicacies by the deluded 
people of St. Domingo, and many other dangerous look- 
ing fellows with long sharp snouts that are really harm- 
less, and innocent looking fellows that are really danger- 
ous. The fly-fisher, however, relies for his pleasure 
mainly upon his imitations of the neuroptera and dijptera^ 
and not so much upon the coleoptera. 
The young of the insect tribe, when it issues from the 
shell in the shape of a worm, is known as the larva^ 
although the larvae of some butterflies are called cater- 
pillars, and of certain flies maggots. When the larva 
begins its metamorphose it is named a pupa or chrysalis, 
