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O R D O 
INSECTA HEMIPTERA* 
O S roftrumque inflexum verfus pedlus. Alæ hemelytratae, fuperlorî- 
bus femi-coriaceis (per futuram rcdlam minime conniventibus) 
fed margine interiore impofitis. 
. O R D E R IL 
HEMIPTEROUS INSECTS. 
TI-îE mouth and probofcis of tbe înfeds which compofc this ordcr,- 
are infieâed and bent inwards towards the breaft. The wingsare hcme- 
lytratæ, or of a fubftance lefs hard and flrong than thofe of the prece- 
ding order, but more fo than the membranaceous ones of the following 
orderf: l'he upper wings are femi-coriaceouSi they do not meet to- 
gethe: in a longitudinal future, as in the foregoing order, but hâve fome 
part of their interior margîns croffed or laid one over the other above 
the Hydomen. 
ORDRE 
