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miouth is either fituated in the breaft, 

 or inclining to it. 



3. Lepidoptera, have four farinaceous 

 wings, which are covered with very fine 

 fcales laid over one another. In the 

 mouth is contained a fpiral tongue, or 

 at leaft the rudiments of one: 



4. Neuroptera, have four membrana- 

 Ceous tranfparent wings (not farinace^ 

 ous.) They are with difficulty diftin- 

 guifhed from the Hymenoptera by de^ 

 fcription ; but having been once feen, 

 they are eafily known. The tail, there- 

 fore, in thefe infects, being without 

 fting, we make ufe of it the more ea- 

 fily to diftinguifh this order. 



5. Hymenoptera. Thefe, befides hav- 



ing four membranaceous wings, have 



their tail armed with a fting ; which, 



however, is not always made ufe of to 



in.flil poifon, but frequentLy to pierce 



the 



