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ARTICULATES, OR JOINTED ANIMALS . . . 125 



Insects 125 



Hyraenopters, or Bees, Wasps, &c. .... 129 



Lepidopters, or Buttei-flies and Moths .... 138 



Dipters, or Plies, &c. . . . ... 154 



Coleopters, or Beetles 159 



Hemipters, or Bugs, Cicadas, &c 1B7 



Orthopters, or Straight-Winged Insects . . . .171 



Neuropters, or Net- Winged Insects 175 



Spiders, or Arachnids ... ... 179 



Centipedes, or Myriapods 183 



Ceustacbans 183 



Ten-Footed Crustaceans, or Crabs, Lobsters, &c. . . 183 

 Fourteen-Footed Crustaceans, or Sand-Fleas, &c. . .187 



Barnacles and Horse-shoe Crabs .... 187 



WOKMS 189 



MOLLUSKS, OR SOFT-BODIED ANIMALS . . 190 



Cephalopods, oe Argonauts, Cuttle-Fishes, &c. . . 192 



Gasteeopods, or Snails 197 



AcEPHALs, OR Headless Mollusks 210 



Bivalves . 210 



Tunicates 216 



Brachjopods . 217 



Polyzoans 217 



RADIATES, OR STAR-SHAPED ANIMALS ... 218 



ECHINODERMS 218 



Holothmians 218 



Sea-Urchins ... 219 



Star-Fishes .... ... 222 



Ophiurans . 224 



Crinoids 226 



Jbllt-Fishes, or AcALfiPHS 227 



Ctcnophorse 229 



Discophorie 230 



Hydroids 232 



Polyps 237 



Gorgonias, &c 240 



Sea-Anemones 243 



Madrepores, &c 244 



PROTOZOANS 250 



CONCLUSION • . . 253 



INDEX 



257 



Appendix 263 



