WHEEL-BEAEEES. 



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because the fact helps to indicate that this class of 

 animals has its proper affinities with the Akticulata, 

 which has been denied by most naturalists. 



SEELETOX ■VTIIEEL-EEAKEE. 



The form is curious. Elevated at the summit of a 

 long foot, consisting of three joints, which surmount 

 two unusually lengthened and slender toes, is a vase- 

 shaped loriea, which is three-sided. Its surface is 

 covered all over with minute points, very closely set, 

 so that it resembles shagreen ; besides which it forms 

 numerous sharp ridges, which run across transversely. 

 The two sides run off into thin lateral wings, which 



