OF INSECTS. 



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4. Shrowded (obteSta) wrapped up in a 

 cruftaceous covering, of fuch a 

 form, that the part which con- 

 tains the head and thorax may be 



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diflinguifhed from that wherein 

 the abdomen is lodged, as in 

 Lepidopterous infedts. 



5. Straitened (coardlata) confined in a cafe 

 of a globular make, not formed 

 fo as to diftinguifh the different 

 parts of the infedt it contains, as 

 in the Mm feet (the Fly) and Oe- 

 fir as (the Gad-fly. 



The infedt, efcaped from its laft prifon, 

 is in the third, or perfect ftate, is adtive, 

 performs the work of generation, and is 

 furnifhed with antenna, which it gene- 

 rally wanted in its other forms. 



The flrudture of the fame identical ani- 

 mal is therefore threefold, which fuppofes 

 a like complication in the fcience, fince, 

 in order to know it well, we mud be ac- 

 quainted with the three different ftates 



through which it pafles. 



Thefe 



