ANALOGIES OF THE CETONIADjE. 



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groups represent the great tribes of the Coleoptera, and 

 what analogies they bear to other orders of created be- 

 ings. On the assumption that the Cetoniance are pre- 

 eminently typical, we may place the rest in the same 

 series in which they have been noticed. 



Analogies of the CetoniadjG to the Tribes of the Co- 

 leoptera. 



•Sttlhfamilies. 



Cetonian^. 



RUTILIN^E. 



MEGASOMINiE. 



]VIelolontbin£. 



GLAPHYRIN£. 



Tribes 



Typical Characters. 



1. Typical. 

 Mandibles concealed. 



2. Sub-typical. 

 Mandibles prominent. 



3. Aberrant. 

 f Stature gigantic ; feed within de-T 



cayed wood ; each typifying the > Capricornes. 



Lamellicornes. 



Predatobes. 



i 



ruminating quadrupeds. 



f Body sub-globose, convex ; legs \ lyioNiLicoHm!.. 

 I unusually long. j MONILICORNES. 



Elytra short, thin, flexible. 



Malacodermbs. 



It is scarcely possible to conceive greater harmony than 

 that which subsists between these two series. The 

 experienced naturalist, if he wishes to detect innume- 

 rable analogies which result from this exposition, has 

 only to compare the contents of the first circle with all 

 those mentioned in this work, and he will find, in every 

 instance, the same results, however differently varied. 

 They may not, indeed, be striking, because analogies are 

 strong or faint, according to the dissimilarity of the 

 groups compared ; but each comparison will throw light 

 upon the other : we may trace, for instance, the convex 

 body of the Melolonthince through their corresponding 

 type of annulose and vertebrate animals, down to 

 tortoises, or chelonian reptiles, until we arrive at the 

 perfectly cylindrical body of the intestinal worm ; ex- 

 tended, as the latter is, to such a disproportionate length. 

 By this disposition, also, of the thalerophagous groups, 

 Vv'e at once perceive that Nature really has intended the 

 GlaphyrincE to represent the Hymenoptera ; and the Ce- 



