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and rivers. Thefe are found alfo in bogs*, 

 marfbes, moift places, pits, and holes of the 

 earth, on ftems- of trees and in an evening they 

 crawl plentifully along path-ways after a fhower 

 of rain. 



Some (r) may be difcovered in the hollow 

 ftems of decayed umbelliferous plants, and on 

 many forts of flowers and fruits. 



II. Another clafs (s) of infecls are found 

 about (/) bake-houfes, corn-mills, in fhips, and 

 in all places where meal is kept ; on grafs (#), 

 and all kinds of field herbage. Some (V) of 

 thefe frequent rivers, lakes, and (landing- 

 pools. 



III. Butterflies and moths make another great 

 divifion (w). In the day, when the fun is warm, 

 butterflies (x) are feen on many forts of trees, 

 mrubs, plants, and flowers. Moths (y) may be 

 feen in the day-time, fitting on walls, pales, 

 trunks of trees, in flaades, out-houfes, dry 

 holes, and crevices ; on fine evenings they fly 

 about the places they inhabit in the day- 

 time: fome ' (z) are feen flying in the day-time 

 over the flowers of honey-fuckles and other 



(r) Forficula* earnvig. 



(s) Hemiptera, from irp/<ry 9 half,, and ^Jepof, a wing, 

 have their upper wings ufually half cruitaceous, and half 

 membranaceous, not divided by a longitudinal' future, but 

 incumbent on each other, as the Cimex, fig. z. (t) Blatta, 

 cockroach. (u) Mantis, camel- -cricket. Gryllus, locufl. 

 Fulgora, cicada, flea-locufl. Cimex, bug. i^v) Notonedta, 

 bout -fly. Nepa, <vjater-Jcorpion. 



(a^) Lepidoptera, from ast/^, a fcale, and <w%pc>v r a 

 wing, are infecls having four wings, covered with fine 

 fcales in the form of powder or meal, as in the butterfly,. 

 Papilio Antiopa, fig. 3. (*) Papilio, butterfly, (j) Pha~ 

 ixiia, moth, (z) Sphinx,. hawk-math.. 



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