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which they are provided are no less wonderful and 

 various, than the operations themselves. They have 

 their saws, and files, and augers, and gimlets, and 

 knives, and lancets, and scissors, and forceps, with 

 many other similar implements, several of which act 

 in more than one capacity, and with a complex and 

 alternate motion to which we have not attained in the 

 use of our tools.' ' Nor is the fact so extraordinary as 

 it may seem at first, since ** He who is wise in heart, 

 and wonderful in working," is the inventor and fabrica- 

 tor of the apparatus of insects, which may be considered 

 as a set of miniature patterns drawn for our use by a di- 

 vine hand.'* 



The same author observes, ' In variegation insects 

 certainly exceed every class of beings. Nature, in her 

 sportive mood when painting them, sometimes imitates 

 the clouds of heaven ; at others, the meandering course 

 of the rivers of the earth. Many are veined like beauti- 

 ful marbles, others have the semblance of a robe of the 

 finest network thrown over them. On many, taking 

 her rule and compasses, she draws with precision mathe- 

 matical figures, triangles, squares, circles, &c. On 

 others, she pourtrays with mystic hand what seem like 

  Kirby and Spence's Entomology, 



