306 MODERN CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 
vol. xi. p. 108.) Lamarck placed it amongst the Diptera. Latreille 
places it between the Lepidoptera and Diptera, observing that, in a 
natural system, they should immediately succeed Eulophus, and other 
parasitic Hymenoptera. Jurine regarded it as intermediate between 
the Hymenoptera and Diptera. Mr. MacLeay, combining the opinions 
of Kirby, Latreille, and Jurine, places the Strepsiptera between the 
Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, as an osculant order. (Hore Ent. 
p- 425.) It would occupy far too great a space to review the grounds 
upon which these various relations are supposed to rest ; and which 
are founded, indifferently, upon structural, metamorphotic, or economic 
considerations. I cannot, however, but observe, that whilst the mouth 
appears to me to present the greatest analogy to that of the Lepi- 
doptera, the nature of the transformations is much nearer that of the 
coarctate Diptera (although the head of the larva does not appear to 
be of variable form), some of which are also equally entomobious. 
The branched antennz of Eulophus, or the longitudinally folded wings 
of Leucospis, offer but very slight grounds of support (in addition to 
the parasitic habits of these genera) to the supposed relation of the 
Strepsiptera and Chalcidide ; whilst, at the same time, the whole 
structure of these insects in the imago state removes them from the 
Diptera, whereas it must be admitted that, in respect to the general 
structure of the body (and by adopting the view given above of the 
thoracic segments and nature of the alary appendages), the Streps- 
iptera are intermediate between such Coleoptera as Atractocerus, and 
such Orthoptera as Phasma. 
The order consists of only a single family, Stylopide Airby.* 
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Orpver LEPIDOPTERA + Linn. ( Glossata Fabr.) 
Cuar. Wings four, large, extended, membranous, covered on both 
sides with minute imbricated scales ; often connected together by 
a hook and bristle; neuration branching. 

+ Bietiocr. Rerer. to LermorrerRa IN GENERAL. 
A. General Lepidoptera of all Countries. 
Cramer. Uitlandsche Kapellen, &e. 4 vols. 4to. Utrecht, 1775-82, with a supple- 
mentary volume by Stoll, 
