ORDINES INSECTORUM- 



O R T H E 



ORDERS OF INSECTS. 



INSECTS are divided into different 

 orders, from the circumftance of their 

 having or wanting wings, and from the 

 number or fubftance of which thofe parts 

 are compofed, in fuch as are furnifhed 

 with them, as follows: 



j. Cohoptera. Which have four wings ; the 

 upper ones called the Elytra, 

 are entirely cruftaceous, be- 

 ing of a hard,horny fubftance, 

 and join, or meet together, 

 on the upper part of the bo«* 

 dy in a diredt line or future. 



2. Hemiptera. Which have four wings $ 



the elytra differ from thofe 



of the former order in their 



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