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Analogies of the PREDATORES and the Orders of the 

 PTILOTA. 



Families of the Arudoeifi Orders of the 



Predatores. Analogies. . ptiiota. 



rirmnFi IDK Typical of their own circles ; co- 1 T EpinoiyrERA 



DELIDJ!. J lourg bright . fly - n the gum j LOPI 



B - dark; fly H EM ^ ER 



SlLPHID*. y s OS aerran an mPereC COLEOPTERA. 



STAPHYLINID,E. Jaws more or less exserted. HYMENOPTERA. 



That celerity of motion, which is produced by flying, 

 is certainly more developed among the Cicindelidce than 

 in any tribe of coleopterous insects ; and as the Lepido- 

 ptera are the most perfect flyers of all the Ptiiota ; both 

 these facts not only render these groups analogous, but 

 tend to corroborate our theory, that perfection of flight 

 is one, if not the very first, character of the annulose 

 circle, just as it is of birds in that of the Vertvbrata. 

 On the other hand, there is an important difference to 

 be remarked, if we look, not to the Cicindelidce only, but 

 to the whole order in general ; for then it is obvious that 

 the Coleoptera, with regard to motion, are the most im- 

 perfect flyers of the whole of the Ptiiota, although they 

 are the swiftest runners or rather, are more terrestrial 

 in their habits than all other winged insects. These are 

 the chief points in the above table which it seems ne- 

 cessary to touch upon ; and these remarkable analogies 

 will be still further confirmed by placing the Ptiiota in 

 comparison with the orders of birds. 



