54 INTRODUCTION TO ZOOLOGY. 



These are some of the facts that are relied upon by 

 some to show that in amount of intelligence ants 

 rank next to man. 



Orders of Insects. 



Copy into your notebook, spell, and pronounce, the 

 following words : — 



Or tbup'te ra He mip'te ra 



Lep i clop'te ra Dip'te ra 



Co le 5p'te ra Hy me nop'te ra 

 Neu rop'te ra 



These seven orders are the orders of insects as 

 establislied by Linnaeus. Recent entomologists make 

 the following divisions : — 



Thys a nu'ra — spring tails 



Eph e mer' i da — may flies 



Od o na' ta — dragon flies 



Pie cop'te ra — stone flies 



Cor ro dgn'tia — book lice 



I s6p'te ra — -white ants 



Mai loph'a ga — bird lice 



Eu plex op'te ra — earwigs 



Or thop'te ra — grasshoppers 



Phy sop'o da — thrips 



He mip'te ra — giant water bugs 



Neu rop'te ra — corydalis, ant lions 



Me cop'te ra — scorpion flies 



Tri ^t^op'te ra — caddice flies 



Lep i d5p'te ra — butterflies, etc. 



DJp'te ra — house flies, etc. 



Siph nap'te ra — fleas 



Co le op'te ra^.)eetles 



Hy me nop'te ra — bees, wasps, ants 



