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NATURAL ARRANGEMENT OF INSIXTS. 



portionate diminution of others ; particularly in the 

 feet, which have only four apparent joints ; and one of 

 these, in a true neighbouring genus, Coccinella, is eva- 

 nescent. We see, therefore, in both the instances here 

 produced, an illustration of the same law. The scan- 

 sorial birds, except in climbing, are as inferior to the 

 perchers (Insessores) , in all other points of general 

 organisation, just as the monilicorn beetles are inferior 

 to the tribes of Lamellicornes and Predatores. 



(178.) Nothing is, perhaps, more instructive, or 

 more interesting, than to trace the extraordinary man- 

 ner in which the natural arrangement of one order of 

 beings harmonises with another, from which, in point 

 of general appearance, it appears, toto ccelo, to differ. 

 Who would imagine, that, among coleopterous insects, 

 we should find a perfect representation, not only of the 

 leading groups of the Lepidoptera, but also of those of 

 the diurnal butterflies ? Yet such is truly the case : the 

 latter set of analogies, in fact, are dependent upon the 

 former, as will be seen by the following comparison : — 



Analogies of the Coleoptera to the Lepidoptera. 



Tribes of the 

 Coleoptera 



Lamellicornes. 

 Predatores. 



Malacodermes. 



Monilicomes. 

 Capricornes. 



Typical Characters. 



\. Typical. 

 Antennae clavate. 



2. Sub-typical. 

 Antenns attenuated. 



3. Aberrant. 



C Body, either in the larva or imago 1 

 X state, particularly soft. j 



f Larva vermiform, or oniscifonn ; 7 

 i leap entirely or partially. 5 



Antennae greatly developed. 



Tribes of the 

 Lepidoptera. 



Papiliones. 

 Sphingides. 



Noctuides. 



Phalcenides. 

 Bombycides. 



The soft-bodied Coleoptera thus find their repre- 

 sentatives among the larvae of the Noctuides ; which. 



