Thrips. HEMIPTERA. i ?5 



his opinion, be a Coleopterous infect, if thofe 

 jaws really exifted, he has taken that circum- 

 ftance for granted, and has accordingly arranged 

 it under that clafs : the other reafons for 

 which he has afTigned it that place, appear 

 to me without force, fince the characteristics 

 from which he has deduced them are like wife 

 found in the Hemipterous infects •, thefe are the 

 form of the antennas, their pofition, that of the 

 legs, the two fir ft of which are attached to the 

 thorax, the four others to the abdomen, and the 

 confidence of their elytra, which are lefs flexible 

 than the wings. 



The tarfus of each foot has only two articu- 

 lations, the fecono of which Bonani and others 

 have obferved to form a kind of veficle, or 

 bladder. 



Thefe infects are very common on flowers, 

 upon which they run, or rather leap, with great 

 vivacity, often bending their bodies upwards. 

 Their habitation is generally under the bark of 

 trees. 



Scopoli has obferved that they fkip or fpring 



rather by means of the abdomen, than of their 



feet ; they are in general fo fmall as fcarce to be 

 perceptible. Their Jarvs run as brifkly as them- 



felves, and are often of a red colour. 



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