408 NOISES OF INSECTS. 
and recession of the trunk and abdomen to and from 
each other. 
And now, my friend, what adorable wisdom, what 
consummate art and skill are displayed in the admirable 
contrivance and complex structure of this wonderful, 
this unparalleled apparatus! The Great Creator has 
placed in these insects an organ for producing and emit- 
ting sounds, which in the intricacy of its construction 
seems to resemble that which he has given to man, and 
the larger animals, for receiving them. Here is a cochlea; 
a meatus; and, as it should seem, more than one tym- 
panum. 
Iam, &c. 
