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5. Hymenoptera. Which have four mem- 



branaceous naked wings, 

 as the preceeding order, but 

 the abdomen armed with 

 a fling. 



6. Dipterd. Which have only two 



wings, being furnifhed with 



poifers or balancers, Hal- 

 teres y inftead of under 



wings. 



7. Apterd. Or thofe which want wings. 



The mofi diftinguifhed writers who have 

 formed Syftems of Entomology befides our Au* 

 thor, are, (as I have obferved in my Preface) 

 Geoffroy, Scopoli, and Schasffer $ each of thefe 

 authors have purfued methods of arrangement 

 very different from that of Linnaeus, and from 

 thofe of one another. I mail now proceed to give 

 an account of their firft, or general divifion, and 

 lhew wherein that differs from the orders invented 

 and laid down as above, by Linnseus, 



Geoffroy has divided this clafs of the afiimal 

 kingdom into fix fections only, uniting the In- 

 fe&a Neuroptera and Hymenoptera of Linnaeus* 

 in his fourth, which accordingly confifts of all 



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