SLIGHT SKETCH 



OF THE 



ANIMAL SYSTEM. 



L 



INN-^US divided the Animal Syftem into fix clafTes, 



Clafs I. Mammalia. Suckle their young. - 

 II. AvEs. (Birds) covered with feathers. 



III. Amphibia. Lungs arbitrary. 



IV. Pisces. (Fifhes) breath by gills not arbitrarily. 

 V. Insecta. (Infeds) tvi^o antennae, or feelers *. 



VI. Vermes. No head. 



We therefore fee that Infects compofe the fifth Clafs in the Syftem, 

 and are divided into feven Orders, 



Order I. Coleoptera, Wings two, covered by tV7o fhells divided 

 by a longitudinal future. 

 II. Hemiptera. Shells or covers of the wings, fomewhat 



foft, and incumbent on each other. 

 III. Lepidoptera. Wings four, imbricated with minute 

 fcales. 



* Thofe feelers are the two horns that are affixed to the head. 



B 2 IV. Neu-4 



