CHAPTER XIII. 



ON THE OTHER ORDERS OF INSECTS, WITH BRIEF 

 ALLUSIONS TO SUCH AMONG THEM AS ARE FIT 

 SUBJECTS FOR THE VIVARIUM. 



v-y -Jp&X OLEOPTERA, Lepidoptera, and 

 G^&F^jiifn Neuroptera, having been discussed 

 at some length, considering the re- 

 stricted form of this volume, as the 

 three orders containing the classes 

 of insects best fitted for the Viva- 

 rium, I can only briefly allude to 

 those remaining orders which pre- 

 sent fewer objects of popular inte- 

 rest. Nevertheless, in order to give a general 

 view, however brief, of the manner in which the 

 whole of the insect tribes, as far as knoAvn, are 

 reduced to scientific order and arrangement, I must 

 in this short Chapter just refer to the position of 

 each order, and to the general characteristics of the 

 insects which have been assigned to it. 



I shall adopt, in this brief statement, the ge- 



