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nomous maxillae the poison-fangs. The great body of 

 the Orthoptera, the Homopterous Hemiptera, the Lepido- 

 ptera, and Trichoptera, afford no example of Predaceous 

 insects. All the analogies I have here particularized, 

 ascending from the insect, terminate in races of a corre- 

 sponding character and aspect amongst the Mammalia, 

 and thus lead us towards man himself, or rather to men 

 in whose minds those bad and malignant qualities prevail, 

 which, when accompanied by power, harass and lay waste 

 mankind ; and thus ascending from symbol to symbol, we 

 arrive at an animal who in his own person unites both 

 matter and spirit, and is thus the member both of a vi- 

 sible and invisible world : and we are further instructed 

 by these symbols, perpetually recurring under different 

 forms, in the existence of evil and malignant spirits, 

 whose object and delight is the corporeal and spiritual 

 ruin of the noble creature who is placed at the head of 

 the visible works of GOD. 



The other tribe of animals that I mentioned of a milder 

 character, may be looked upon as represented by many 

 herbivorous, or not carnivorous, insects ; amongst others, 

 the Lamellicorn beetles imitate them by their remarkable 

 horns, so that they wear the aspect of miniature bulls, or 

 deer, or antelopes a , or rams, or goats, whether these 

 horns are processes of the head or of the upper jaws. 

 The gregarious Hymenoptera, some of which form part of 

 our domestic treasures, may be regarded in some degree 

 as belonging to this department. From insects the 

 ascent upwards, with regard to form, is by some of the 

 branchiostegous fishes, which symbolize the horns of 



a A remarkable imitation of an antelope's horn, a process of the 

 mandible of an insect, in the possession of R. D. Alexandei'jEsq.F.L.S., 

 is figured in the fifth Number of the Zoological Journal. 



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