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7„ Infe&a Aptera, or without wings. 



The five firfl: claffes he has divided into orders, 

 from the number of articulations in their feet * 

 and the whole into genera, as will be hereafter 

 noticed. 



Scopoli agrees with Geoffroy in uniting all 

 fuch infefts as have the elytra cruftaceous in 

 their whole length, under the clafs Coleopteron. 

 The Grylli, Mantes, and Blat t<e J graft hopper s^znd 

 Wckroacbes) feem however to form a clafs entirely 

 diftinft from the Coleoptera, from the different 

 confidence or fubftance of their elytra \ the fhape 

 of their heads, and the foftnefs of their bodies % 

 and from the Hemiptera, in their having the 

 mouth armed with jaws, nor extended into a 

 probofcis : Thefe reafcns may probably engage 

 fome future fyftematic writer to unite them in a 

 new clafs s which may be termed Infeffa Hemely* 

 ifnto-maxillofa t, preferving to the Hemiptera, the 



name of Infefra Prcbofcidea, given to that clafs 

 by Scopoli. 



The other orders into which Scopoli has divided 

 his infers, are the fame with thofe of Linnaeus ; 

 only to the fifth order or Hymenoptera of that au- 

 thor* he has given the name of InfeBh Aculeate, 

 from their fting \ to the fixth, or Infefta Dip- 

 ten* that of the Halteraia, doubtlefs to diftin- 



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