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ORDER VIL 



INSECTA APTERA, 



This order contains all fuch infe&s as 

 want wings in either fex. 



It has been before obferved, that many 

 infefts are found to want wings, which, 

 however, cannot be referred to this order, 

 becaufe one or other fex of the fame fpe- 

 cies is furnifhed with thofe parts. Bru- 

 nicbe> in his Syftem of Entomology, has 

 indeed arranged every infedt wanting wings 

 under his Apterous order, without taking 

 notice of the wings in the different fexes of 

 the fame fpecies, which creates a ftrange 

 confufion, as the different fexes of the fame 

 infedt mufl: often be fought for under diffe- 

 rent orders: thus the ApterousAphis, the fe- 

 male Coccus, the neuters of Ants, the Apte- 

 rous Mutillae:, are feparated from the others 

 of their own fpecies, and arranged among 



infedls 



