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 FISHES. 



(A.) CARTILAGINOUS, WITHOUT TRUE BONES. 

 (B.) BONY FISHES FISHES PROPERLY SO CALLED. 



ORDER 

 (A,) 1. CHONDROPTERYGII. Without an operculum, or covering of 



the gills as the shark, the lamprey, the torpedo, the skate, the 



saw fish, &c. 

 (A.") 2. BRANCHIOSTEGI. With an operculnm. the sturgeon, the globe 



fish, the sun fish, &c. 



(B.) 3. APODES. Without ventral fins the eel, the sword fish, &c. 



(B.) 4. JUGULARES. Having the ventral in front of the pectoral fins 



the haddock, the cod, the piper, &c. 

 (B.) 5. THORACICI. Having the ventral immediately below the pectoral 



fins the dory, the plaice, the flounder. 

 * (B.) 6. ABDOMINALES. Having the ventral behind the pectoral fin 



the salmon, the trout, and most fresh water fish. 



INSECTS. 



1. COLEOPTERA. Mostly with horny bodies beetles. 



2. HEMIPTERA. With four wings, folded together crucically or 



longitudinally, hard for one half, and almost like parchment the 

 cock roach, the grasshopper. 



3. LEPIDOPTERA. With soft hairy bodies, and four expanded 



wings covered with coloured scales butterflies, 



4. NEUROPTERA. With four transparent, net-shaped, or lattice- 



like wings the ephemera or day fly, the water moth. 



5. HYMENOPTERA. With four transparent veined wings the 



wasp, the bee, the ant. 



6. DIPTERA. Insects with two wings, (uncovered) the gnat, the 



various species of flies. 



7. APTERA. Insects without wings the spider, the scorpion, the 



crab, the flea.* 



WORMS. 



1. INTESTINA. Long worms without any evident external organs 



of motion common earth worms, human worms, &c. 



2. MOLLUSC A. Naked, soft worms, with visible, and often very 



numerous extremities the slug, sea blubber, sea anemone, &c. 



* In the above order of insects, Blumenbach has followed Liimtcus. 



