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They then make their appearance in the form above described, 

 and fly about with great activity in search of their partners ; but 

 their life in the perfect state appears to be very short. The body 

 of the female contains a great number of eggs, and from these, 

 in course of time, a multitude of little, active, hexapod larvce are 

 produced, which escape from the body of their mother by a 

 broad canal running up its lower surface. They run about 

 amongst the hairs of the Bee, and seem, not unfrequently, to take 

 refuge again in the body of their parent. As the Bee visits the 

 flowers in search of nourishment, however, many of the larvae 

 are detached and left behind, when they soon attach themselves 

 to the bodies of other Bees, and are by them conveyed to their 

 nests. Here they bury themselves in the body of the Bee-larva, 

 and become converted into footless maggots. It is the great 

 similarity of this process to what takes place in Meloe ( 714), 

 that has principally induced modern entomologists to approxi- 

 mate the Strepsiptera and Coleoptera. 



ORDER II. ORTHOPTEKA. 



724. In many respects the Insects of this Order resemble 

 the Coleoptera ; and they are closely connected with that group 

 by those of the family FORFICULID^E, or Earwigs, which partake 

 of the characters of both. But they differ from the Beetles, in 

 the softer covering of their bodies ; in the partially membranous 

 character of the anterior pair of wings, which seem intermediate 

 between the horny elytra of Beetles and the membranous wings 

 of other insects, and which do not meet when closed along the 



