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neral division and order of arrangement adopted by 

 Mr. Westwood, in his modern " Classification of 

 Insects," which though necessarily a voluminous 

 work, exhibits the whole subject in a more com- 

 pact, easily understood, and truly regular form 

 than any work I am acquainted with. 



1. The Coleoptera, or Beetles, occupy the place 

 of honour, and stand at the head of the great pha- 

 lanx of insect life. 



2. Then comes a small order recently separated, 

 and called JEuplexoptera. It contains only the 

 Forficulida, or Earwig tribe, which, from the pecu- 

 liar formation of the broad, cheese-knife-shaped 

 wing, has been considered very distinct to all other 

 classes of the order Orthoptera, to which it was 

 attached when first separated from Coleoptera. 



3. Then follows the extensive order Orthoptera, 

 termed Dcraloptera by Clair ville, and Ulonata by 

 Fabricius. This order contains that class of insects 

 which may be represented, in their general cha- 

 racter, by the Cockroaches, Soothsayers, Walking- 

 stick insects, Leaf-insects, Crickets, Locusts, etc. 

 In their internal anatomy, many of the insects of 

 this great and distinct order exhibit such a supe- 

 rior degree of development, as to have led the 

 eminent Trench naturalist, M. Marcel de Serres, to 



