HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



OUDKA. SECTION. FAMILY. 



fNemocern. 



TRIBE. 

 Culicides. 



Dipt era. 



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v Tipularia?. ... 

 "Tabanii. 

 Sicarii. 

 Mydasii. 

 Leptides. 

 Dolichopoda. 



I ^ Tanystoma.-^ Asilici. 



Hybotina. 

 Empides. 

 Anthracii. 

 Bombyliarii. 

 LVesiculosa. 



SUBTRIBE. 



{Culiciformes. 

 Gallicolae. 

 Terricolae. 

 Fungivorae. 

 Florales. 



Athericera. 



fSyrphiae. 

 j Conopsariefi. 

 ^ CEstrides. 



(_Muscides 



II i PupipariE... } g. or ce8B - . 



t Phtlnromyiae 



fCryptogastrae. 



Creophilae. 



Carpomyzas. 



Dolichocera;. 

 I Gonocephal*. 

 I Scathophilae. 

 (_Apterae. 



If you examine the Orders as here given, you will 

 find that they mostly represent natural primary groups 

 of his Classes, though with regard to their distribution 

 you may perhaps feel disposed to differ from him. You 

 will also think that his secondary and minor groups b , with 

 the exception of some of his sections, merit the same 

 character. Indeed, he has left far behind all his prede- 



* These tables, except the first, are taken from the Families Naturelles 

 du Regne Animal. As a new edition of M. Le Baron Cuvier's Regne 

 Animal is preparing, M. Latreille will doubtless give in it a still more 

 improved arrangement of the Crustacea, Arachnida, and Insecta. 



11 Several of the minor groups given in the table he has further re- 

 solved before he arrives at his genera. 



