14 POPULAR ENTOMOLOGY. 



the pollen from the stamens of flowers ; and in other species 

 the anterior legs are broad and spined, thus being calculated 

 for digging in the earth. When the upper part of the leg is 

 slender and cylindrical, the motion is generally confined to 

 walking ; when thick and apparently swelled, the insect is 

 usually capable of swimming or leaping, as this peculiarity 

 indicates greater muscular power. The muscles in most 

 insects are very numerous, and of course exceedingly mi- 

 nute; in the Caterpillar of one species, Lyonnet counted 

 more than four thousand, while those of the human body 

 do not exceed five hundred and twenty-nine; from this 

 cause many Caterpillars can suspend themselves in a hori- 

 zontal posture for some hours ; most persons have noticed 

 one curious species which has the appearance of a dried 

 twig, both in colour and in the perfect rigidity of the atti- 

 tude it assumes. 



These are the principal terms necessarily used in the 

 description of insects; others more technical may be dis- 

 pensed with till the student is further advanced in the 

 science. The next month may be occupied in studying the 

 modern classification, adopted, with some modifications, by 

 Leach, Latreille, Kirb}^, Curtis, Westwood, and other 

 modern Entomologists. 



