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Analogies of the COLEOPTEBA to the Orders 0/*QuA- 



DBUPEDS. 



It will be curious to see in what manner the 

 armour-like covering of the Coleoptera is represented 

 among other animals. The tortoises are covered with 

 horny plates; and if we look among quadrupeds for a 

 similar structure, we have the Indian ant-eaters, and the 

 armadillos of the New World, both protected in pre- 

 cisely the same manner. These latter animals are at 

 the head of the tribe Edentata, which is the most 

 aberrant division of the hoofed quadrupeds (Unguktta). 

 By bringing these into comparison, we shall here see 

 that the armadillos represent both the tortoises and the 

 beetles, as we have formerly shown. * 



Analogies of the COLEOPTEBA to QUADBTJPEDS and 

 REPTILES. 



(174.) Our former volumes will have sufficiently es- 

 tablished the different circles of the vertebrate animals 

 with which we have now compared the orders of the 



* Classification of Quadrupeds, p. 180. 



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