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Scheme No. 2. 



SUB-KINGDOM IV (b). 



Metabola 

 I 



A. Hymenoptera 

 (e. g, bees, wasps, ants, 



ichneumons) 



B. Coleoptera 

 {e.g. Carabidse or 



Carnivorous 



ground beetle , 



Ditiscidae or 

 water-beetles ; 



Sylphidae or 

 burying beetles ; 



Dermestidae 

 or Bacon beetles ; 



Scrabididae or 



cockchafers ; 

 Elatiridae or 



Click-beetles 



(wire-worms) ; 

 Tenebrionidse or 

 meal beetles ; 



Curculionidae 



or weevils ; 



Cerambicidae 

 or woodborers; 

 Chrysomelidae 

 or leaf and flea- 

 beetles ; and 



Coccilinidae 

 or lady-birds.) 



C. Lepidoptera 

 (butterflies and 



moths). 

 D. Diptera 

 (Flies and mos- 

 quitoes). 



I 

 Hemi-metabola 



A. Hemiptera or Rhynchota 

 a. Hemiptera heteroptera 



(Bugs, lice) 



/>. Hemiptera homoptera 



(e. g. cicads, plant. 



lice, scale insects) 



B. Orthoptera (Cockroaches, 

 ear-wigs, crickets and grass- 

 hoppers) 



C. Neuroptera 



(Dragon flies ; 

 white ants.) 



D. Thysanoptera 



(Thrips) 



I 



A-metabola 



I 



Thysanura 

 (Scale louse) 



1,173, A. short description of each of the above groups 

 of animals, mainly bringing out the meaning of the various 



