ANALOGIES OF THE COLEOPTEBA. 



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Analogies of the Coleoptera to the Orders of Qua- 

 drupeds. 



(173.) 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 {Ungulata). 

 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 Coleoptera to Quadrupeds and 

 Reptiles. 



(ly*.) 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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