172 STATES OF INSECTS. (Larva.) 
by Madame Merian* which appears to tend even to the 
Chilopodiform type. 
Hymenoptera. In this order the larvee of the saw-flies, 
Tenthredo L., are in general Chilognathiform, though 
some are Onisciform, others Limaciform, and those of 
Lyda and Sirex® have a Vermiform tendency, and are a 
stepping-stone to those of the rest of the order, which 
are all Vermiform and apods. 
Diptera. 'The majority of this order may be set down 
as Vermiform, though it is not improbable that some of 
them bear an analogy to animals that appear far removed 
from the Annulosa. ‘Thus, the larva of Stratyomis Cha- 
meleon seems to exhibit no small resemblance to some 
of the Polypi vaginati in the Acrita subkingdom of Mr. 
W.S. MacLeay*. That of Culex and some others is con- 
structed on a quite different type from the rest, and seems 
to possess some analogy to the Branchiopod Crustacea. 
Though some of these analogies are more striking than 
others, yet in almost all that I have stated there is that 
kind of resemblance that could not be the result of what 
is called mere chance; and Mr. MacLeay, by first point- 
ing out this plan of the All-wise Creator, and by laying 
down the doctrine of analogies in general, as distinguish- 
ed from affinities in the animal kingdom, has furnished 
the believer with a new argument against those attacks 
of the infidel, that would render null those proofs of the 
wisdom and goodness of the Author of nature with which 
the animal and vegetable creation furnish us; by affirm- 
ing most absurdly, and under the most stultifying blind- 
* Ins. Surinam. t. xxviii. Compare Jbid. ¢. xix. right-hand figure. 
> Prate XVIII. Fic. 10. 
“ Swamm. Bibl, Nat. t. xxxix. Piare XIX. Fie. 13. 
