136 ON SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY. 
(187.) The system of Aristotle in regard to insects, 
or annulose animals, has been collected and digested by 
a commentator eminently qualified for such a task. It 
is as follows : — 
{ Coleoptera. 
Pedetica = Orthoptera Saltatoria Laz. ' 
| Astomata = Hemiptera Lat. 
Psyche = Lepidoptera. 
("armors 7s = Majora= Neuroptera L. Orthop. 
Tetraptera} tera cursoria Lat. 
Opisthocentra = Hymenoptera. 
Minora = Musca, Tipule, &c. 
INSECTA 4 LDiptera 5 Emprosthrocentra = Culex, Ta- 
banus, &c. 
Prerora simul § Myrmix = Formica L. 
et APTERA Pygolampis = Lampyris. 
LAPTERA. 
(188.) We shall now offer a few observations on 
these arrangements of the two most important divisions 
of the animal kingdom. On looking to the first table, 
we are surprised at the accuracy with which this great 
philosopher has perceived the distinction between the 
Unguiculata and the Ungulata, or the clawed and the 
hoofed quadrupeds ; a distinction which laid the found- 
ation for one of the best divisions of Willughby’s system, 
and some of the most defective in that of Linneus. If 
we wished to cite authority in support of our opinion, 
that the Cheiroptera, or Bats, are the representatives of 
the Gilires in the circle of the Quadrumana, we might 
appeal to the views of Aristotle, who considered the two 
groups so similar, that he actually places them together. 
His disposition of the oviparous birds is still more 
admirable. There requires no great talent, it is true, 
to perceive that the rapacious, the gallinaceous, the 
wading, and the swimming birds, constitute so many 
orders or primary divisions ; but that Aristotle should 
have seen that the Climbers formed only a division of 
the Perchers (Znsessores), and were not to be elevated to 
the rank of a primary division, is most surprising, and 
annuls all the modern claims that have been set up for 
priority in proclaiming a truth, given to the world by a 
Grecian philosopher centuries ago. But if this dispo- 
sition of the vertebrated classes claim our admiration, 
still more must we extol these just conceptions, which 
