378 SYSTEM OF INSECTS.. 



DEF. Metamorphosis incomplete*. 



Legs inosculating, posterior coxae usually trans- 

 verse. 



Elytra corneous, or coriaceous, without veins, 

 united by a straight suture, so as mostly to 

 cover the wings completely b . 

 Wings longitudinally and transversely folded : 

 neuration simple d . 



2. STREPSIPTERA e (Rhiphiptera Latr.) The cha- 

 racters of this Order were first given in the Linnean 

 Transactions, and it has been adopted by Latreille, who 

 however, without sufficient reason, has changed the name 

 originally imposed to Rhiphiptera f . Rossi, who was the 

 first that discovered an insect of this Order, concluded 

 that .because it was parasitic it must be Hymenopterous ; 

 and it is certainly more nearly related to that Order than 

 to the Diptera, amongst which M. Lamarck has arranged 

 it, and with which it has no character in common, ex- 

 cept having two wings. This is one of those Orders, 

 consisting of few genera and species, which, from their 

 connecting two circles, Mr. MacLeay has called oscu- 

 lant, who places it between the Hymenoptera and Coleo- 

 ptera %. 



DEF. Metamorphosis subincomplete h ? 



Pseudelytra twisted, attached to the- anterior 

 leg'. 



3 VOL. I. p. 65. b In some genera, as Molorchus, 



&c., they do not completely cover the wings. PLATE X. FIG. 1. 

 PLATE I. FIG. 4, 5. c In JSuprestis, Molorchus, &c. t 



they are only longitudinally folded. A PLATE X. FIG. 4. 



e From g^/f, a turning or twisting, and TTTS^OV. 



* VOL. III. p. 589. note c . s Hor. Entomolog. 371. 



h Linn. Trans, xi, 96. * Ibid, t.ix.f. 1. d. 



