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as to the classification of the orders of the hexapodous or winged 
insects : 
SUPERORDERS. ORDERS. SUBORDERS. 
doe ae wae ob dese ee 
Lepidoptera 
Euglossata!, . Diptera (genuina): 
t ere aes esise | ae Piina 
SOPRO IN N | Coleoptera... ........ $ Coleoptera (goma): 
| Homoptera. 
| i eteroptera. 
ost de Onna WR FE | Flegnighera, i.o 5 as « Physapoda, 
Mallophaga. 
Trichoptera, 
f Neuropteta isuu oseti Plinipeanis. 
Odonata, 
Phyloptera . 4 Pseudoneuroptera ....| < Ephemerina, 
Platyptera. 
Orthopteracc. 71.5 iis 
| Dermatoptera........ 
Cinura. 
naptera*, , ...| 1 Symphyla. 
sina . Rn a ee | Collembola. 
ee 
THE POWER OF SCENT IN THE TURKEY VULTURE. 
BY SAMUEL N. RHOADS. 
E the Westminster Review of 7th month, 1847, occurs an 
article setting forth the valuable additions Philip Henry Gosse 
has made to scientific knowledge and the solution of some diffi- 
cult problems in natural history. The article in hand is a review 
of Gosse’s “ Birds of Jamaica,” wherein, among other quotations, 
is given an extended one relating to the sense by which the 
vulture distinguishes its prey at great distances. A controversy 
on this subject, during the early part of our century, “ set together 
[e propose the name Euglossata for the highest insects, comprising those orders 
which, besides having the mouth-parts (either the first or second iia cr both) 
modified so as to sip, suck or lap up liquid food, also have the bady cylindrical, and 
the thorax more or less spherical and concentrated. 
* This term is proposed for the Coleoptera al 
*This term is proposed for the Hemiptera, in ne of which, except the Mallophaga 
and PELEA (Thrips), the mouth-parts are united to form a sucking beak, 
* This roposed for the Thysanuran apterous o which are perhaps 
nearly the Allana equivalents of either of the three other superorders. 
