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 divided by nature into feveral ftates or 

 orders. Their external appearance alfb 

 carried with it fome mark of diftinc- 

 tion, fo that entomologifts called all 

 thofe of the Coleoptera clafs, Scarabaei 

 (beetles;) thofe of theLepidoptera, Papi- 

 Kones ; and thofe of the Gymnoptera 

 clafs that had two wings only, Mufcas i 

 (flies;) thofe of the fame clafs that had 

 four wings, were called Apes (bees). 

 No farther progrefs was made in the 

 fyftematic part of this fcience tiil the 

 time of Linnaeus. He was the firfr. 

 that undertook to determine the Ge- 

 nera, and affign them their proper cha- 

 raclers in the Syjlema Natur^, and 

 thus reduced this fcience to a fyilematic 

 form. This.fyftem, m fubfequent edi- 

 tions, was confiderably enriched and 

 amended by him, infomuch that the 

 fcience of infecls now fhines forth iri 

 its full luflre. He it was who firfr. in- 



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