50 NATURAL ARRANGEMENT OF INSECTS. 



sheep, and other hoofed quadrupeds — can be termed 

 absolutely domestic, or capable of administering, in a 

 direct way, to the wants of man. And yet a little con- 

 sideration will show us there are many strong points of 

 analogy between the ruminating quadrupeds and the 

 bees : both are the most gregarious of their respective 

 classes : the elephant in one, and the hive bee in the 

 other, show us the highest development of instinct in 

 the animal creation ; and if the latter does not sponta- 

 neously yield us its honey, it will yet inhabit those ar- 

 tificial mansions we prepare for securing its sweets ; so 

 that, in some degree, it may be said to be not only a 

 social, but a somewhat domesticated, insect. Now, to 

 show that these facts have an immediate reference to 

 our theory of representation, we shall here place the two 

 series of these animals in juxtaposition. 



Analogies of the Vtilota to the Orders 0/ Quadrupeds. 



Classes of the . . . „ Orders of 



Ptilota. Analogies. Quadrupeds. 



LEP.DOWERA. [^'v^-^^js™""y typical. Herbi-j (^^^^^^^^^^^ 



Hemiptera. Sub-typical. Carnivorous. FerjE. 



Hymenoptera. Gregarious ; social and intelligent. Ungulata. 



CoLEOPTERA. Pre-eminently gnawers. Glires. 



Neoroptera. Aquatic. Head very large. Cetacea. 



It is not a little singular, that this set of analogies is 

 actually more determinate than that we have just no- 

 ticed. The peculiar character of the Hemiptera, which 

 is, that of being the raptorial type of the Ptilota, did 

 not there appear ; here, however, it comes into play, 

 and makes up for the obscurity of the analogy in the 

 last table. Our chief object, however, on the present 

 occasion, is to confirm what has just been said on the 

 relations of the Hymenoptera to the Ungulata; the bees 

 being in one, and the elephant and horned cattle in the 

 other. Beetles and mice, again, are the most gnawing 

 of all the groups here named, and they are likewise the 

 most aberrant of their respective circles. The dispro- 



