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vellous descriptions of Goedart and Degeer. Such a dis- 

 tribution of the Cokoptera may be said to be founded on 

 relations of analogy, which, on comparing" the young Jme- 

 tabola with the larva? of the corresponding groups of Co- 

 koptera, will be found as strong as those which exist be- 

 tween the classes of Mandibulata and Haustellata. The 

 distinction, however, between affinity and analogy, is per- 

 haps no where in Entomology more necessary to be at- 

 tended to than here ; since in terming larva? Chilognathi- 

 formes or Chilopodiformes, it is not meant that they are 

 Scolopendrtz or lull, or even near to them in affinity ; but 

 only that they are so constructed that certain analogical 

 circumstances attending them strongly remind us of these 

 Ametabola. 



The only author who has to my knowledge placed the 

 order of Hymenoptera next that of Coleoptera is M. Cu- 

 vier. How he came to discover this affinity I know not; 

 but I suspect his reasons for it to have been founded on 

 very general considerations, since at the time his work 

 was published the Strepsiptera* had scarcely been thought 

 of, much less studied. 



If further observations should prove Savigny to have 



* If the word Slrepsiptera is in these pages invariably used in preference 

 to Rhipiptera and Rhipidopttra, names given to the same group by the 

 French entomologists, it is because the former word has the right of se- 

 niority, because it is the name bestowed on these insects by the person 

 who first gave us any definite notion of their place in nature, and in short 

 because it appears to be free from fault. M. Latreille indeed says, that 

 the etymology of his name Rhipiptera rests on an incontestable fact; but 

 so does also Slrepsiptera, as will appear from the Mimoxres both of himself 

 and M. J urine on these insects. They both acknowledge that the organs 

 which have occasioned so much dispute among entomologists are used in 

 flying, and every person agrees that they are distorted. I therefore ask 

 whether, according to the rules of the science, it be not our duty to adopt 

 the name originally given to the order by our learned countryman? For 

 my part, until a fault shall be distinctly proved to affect it, I shall always 

 adopt that name, whether French or English, which is supported by the 

 right of priority. 



