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the numbers before each, as apphed by the respective authors, 

 to show that, on my part, there has been no alteration of 

 position. 



STEPHENS. 



I. Lepidoptera. 



VII. Homoptera. II. Diptera. 



VI. Hemiptera. III. Homaloptera. 



V. Aptera. IV. Aphmnptera. 



IV. Neuroptera. V. Trichoptera. 



III. Orthoptera. VI. Hymenoptera. 



II. Dermaptera. VII. Strepsiptera. 



I. COLEOPTERA. 



NEWMAN. 



I. Lepidoptera. 

 VI. Hemiptera. II. Diptera. 



VII. Neuroptera. 

 V. Orthoptera. III. Hymenoptera. 



IV. CoLEOPTERA. 



Can this similarity be the effect of chance ? If one man 

 set out from Dover on foot, and another from Holyhead, and 

 walked to London by these two opposite roads, would their 

 meeting in London be the effect of chance ? No one would 

 be so hardy as to assert so; and yet I have heard those to 

 whom I have pointed out the above similarity assert, that it 

 was a matter of chance ; that Mr. Stephens did not ever 

 intend the orders to be placed as I have placed them. I grant 

 that: the relative position he proposes for the orders is not 

 by any means, so consistent with the contents of the body of 

 his work as the one I propose; the only difference I have 

 ventured, is, that I begin with the Lepidoptera because Mr. 

 Newman has done so, and because also that by so doing I do 

 away with the very outrageous connexion between the two 



