110 LECTURE IX. 



Caterpillar, which is very large and beautiful, feeds 

 on the leaves of apple and pear-trees and some 

 others. The complete insect exhibits a beautiful 

 assemblage of different shades of grey, and each 

 wing is marked in the middle by a most elegant 

 and conspicuous eye-shaped spot. 



The Phalcena Cecropia of Linnaeus is a very 

 fine insect, and is not uncommon in many parts of 

 North- America. Its Caterpillar is of a green co- 

 lour and a remarkable appearance, and has been 

 elegantly represented in the beautiful work on the 

 Insects of North-America by a Mr. Abbot, ac- 

 companied by excellent notes and illustrations by 

 our celebrated botanist Dr. Smith of Norwich. 



I shall proceed to give a general explanation 

 of the remaining Linnaean Classes of Insects. 



The Class Neuroptera or Nerve-Winged, or 

 Fibre-ringed Insects consists of such as have four 

 large wings, furnished with very conspicuous 

 nerves, fibres, or ramifications dispersed over 

 the whole wing. This order is exemplified in 

 those elegant and very common Insects called 

 Dragon-Flies, as well as in May-Flies, and many 

 others. I shall content myself with giving as an 

 illustration of this order the common English 



