SYSTEM OF INSECTS. 4.09 
and you will find it nearly an exact model of the skele- 
ton of a dead one, the flat segments of its body resem- 
bling the vertebra, its curving legs the ribs, and its ve- 
nomous maxillz the poison-fangs. The great body of 
| the Orthoptera, the Homopterous Hemiptera, the Lepido- 
ptera, and Trichoptera, afford no example of Predaceous 
insects. All the analogies I have here particularized, 
ascending from the insect, terminate in races of a corre- 
sponding character and aspect amongst the Mammalia, 
and thus lead us towards man himself, or rather to men in 
whose minds those bad and malignant qualities prevail, 
which, when accompanied by power, harass and lay waste 
mankind ; and thus ascending from symbol to symbol, we 
arrive at an animal who in his own person unites both 
matter and spirit, and is thus the member both of a vi- 
sible and invisible world: and we are further instructed 
by these symbols,—-perpetually recurring under different 
forms,—in the existence of evil and malignant spirits, 
whose object and delight is the corporeal and spiritual 
ruin of the noble creature who is placed at the head of 
the visible works of Gop. 
The other tribe of animals that I mentioned of a milder 
character, may be looked upon as represented by many 
herbivorous, or not carnivorous, insects; amongst others, 
the Lamellicorn beetles imitate them by their remarkable 
horns, so that they wear the aspect of miniature bulls, or 
deer, or antelopes*, or rams, or goats, whether these 
horns are processes of the head or of the upper jaws. The 
* A remarkable imitation of an antelope’s horn, in the possession 
of R. D. Alexander, Esq. F.U.S., is figured in the fifth Number of the 
Zoological Journal. 
