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flowers and in gardens ; their head is small and round, the thorax gib- 
lions, the feet long, the proboscis small and inflected. 
Sp. 1 E. pennipcs. ( FI. 9. fig. 6.) 
Genus 76. Conors. 
Mouth with a porrected, geniculated rostrum; antenna, clavated; the 
dam acuminated. 
Sp. 1. C. macrocephala. (PI. 9. fig. 8.) 
Genus 77. Asjlus. 
Mouth with a straight, horny, bivalve haustellum, which is gibbous at 
the lia.se; antenna filiform. 
The insects of this genus live by preying on those of the Dipterous 
and Lepidopterous orders. When they are at rest, their wings in 
general are incumbent on the abdomen, which is long and small, often 
hairy, particularly the feet, and these end in small claws. Their larvae 
feed in the earth, on the roots of plants : they change into a pupa, 
coarctata, beset with seta;. 
Sp. 1. A. crabroniformis. (PI. 9. fig. 9.) 
Genus 78. Bombylius. 
Mouth, with a very long setaceous, straight, bivalve haustellum ; the 
valves unequal, with three setae; two short hairy palpi; antenna subu- 
lated, united at the base. 
The insects of this genus, while they fly, suck the nectareous juices 
of flowers. 
Sp. 1. B. major. (PI. 9. fig. 10.) 
Genus 79. Hipvobosca. 
Mouth with a short, cylindrical, bivalve haustellum ; the valves equal ■ 
antenna filiform ; fieri with several claws. ’ 
The insects of this genus live by sucking the blood of animals; and 
stick so fast to their skins, that they must be torn before they can be 
taken oft'. J 
Sp. 1. H. equina. (PI. O.fig. 11.) 
Order VII. APTERA. 
In this Order Linne arranged (if we except the Flea, Louse, and Le- 
pisma,) animals widely different from genuine insects : I shall only 
enumerate the names of Linne, and the Classes they constitute. The 
characters of the numerous tribes and genera into which they are dis- 
tributed, are fully detailed in the article “Annulosa ” in the Supplement 
to Encyc. Brit. vol. 1. part 2. 
Ihe following genera belong to the Class Insccta, the characters of 
