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cumstance on which they build this strange and impious 

 theory. But the fact, that certain animals of one tribe 

 were created with a view to certain animals of another, 

 so as to present a striking aspect of correspondence, pa- 

 rallel almost with that of type and antitype, without any 

 real affinity or approximation; — this triumphantly proves 

 a Power above and without them, who has associated 

 them not only in a complex chain of affinities, but has 

 caused them to represent and figure each other, even 

 when evidently far removed, so as to give a mutual cor- 

 respondence and harmony to the whole, which could be 

 produced only by a Being infinite in power and wisdom, 

 who made all things after a general preconceived plan 

 and system. 



iv. We are now to consider the clothing with which 

 larvae are furnished. Many are quite naked, and smooth 

 or rough only with granular elevations or tubercles or- 

 derly arranged; but a very considerable number, espe- 

 cially of the Lepidoptera order, are clothed with hair or 

 bristles of different kinds, in greater or less abundance, 

 and arranged in different modes ; and a proportion still 

 smaller have their skin beset with spines or a mixture of 

 spines and hairs. Lyonnet found that the hairs of the 

 caterpillar of the great goat-moth ( Cossus ligniperda) were 

 hollow, though not to the apex : probably this is the case 

 with those of other larvae, as well as with their spines. 

 In this instance they were set, he observes, in a corneous 

 ring, or very short cylinder, elevated a little above the 

 skin. The hair passes through this ring, and appears to 

 be rooted in a soft integument, which clothes the skin 

 within, and upon which the nerves form a reticular tissue. 



