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the Linnjean ordorQ 1 
as reason and analow ” ® enc ' lc characters, with such improvements 
Proved, are reverted' m and as Lin ne himself would have ap- 
the age.” 7 e m °st acute and learned entomologists of 
ORDERS and genera of 
Order I. COLEOPTERA. 
linne. 
hard cases to their win-s withal 1, dlvIslon - They have 
are united, and therefore such wf d " lal 1 8uturc; thcs e in some 
'rings in most are two. The mouth ing ^ n .° win gs; but the 
two ’ J nur , and sometimes sir i mini t 8 , e . n . L ' ra IS furnished with 
*** i» covered above with ^ t™* 1 * > the 
?P S: they liaveall six feet in tl.eir^S closed below with the 
Is *0 greatest diver iw A, *7?* Stat6; ln the there 
Pa) character of tin LL^Te^ In th,s s ^ tem the princi- 
? de they have nine spitaculi horny skin; on each 
dom en. The females 1^ dmi™\ ^ a " d eight °“ th(: *>- 
^"dfrom these proceed the tovxe ^ 6arth ’ duDg ’ plants ’ Wuod > 
h> the diirerS ' m fOTI » and size 
STS and °“ cat h sid^nioc i short aa- 
and their roots move but slowly ^those ev^M r ,hat feed nn P la nts 
more active; others, as the Carabidte Th,f -f 1 lv ®° 11 dead animals are 
Iced on living animals, arc verv ,-mi /. CM *f» and St which 
state, during which insects chaLe ^ d . m ,t beir motioil s. The larva 
ctes for a year; in the larger speries^lon SklnS ’ endureS in ,nust spe- 
When larva arrived It ;! ^^“es three or four 
together, and changes for the 1 lb ; l Wc mted time, it draws itself 
•■nctinies below the earth r r i part mt0 a P u P a incompletu. which 
Ante »n a clavatpl i GcnUS 1 - Sc **a*kus. 
m andiblr* 1 1 0< * the club lamellated ( PI i , \ , . . 
the for" T y ’ hl general without teih-riwf'- a ' ): P al {“. four: 
S Pccics 1 & ° f feet generally dentated * S6C0nd J 01nt °f 
smallest; the ot'w tl^^T thc thorax > the middle one the 
with the head 1 f* 0 extending forwards and of thc samp I i 
Inhabits Europe’, h ‘ C 1 has no horns - ( VL 1 • fig- 1 ) Stil 
