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Order I . — Coleopterous Injects. 
i His order comprehends all thofe infects which have 
their wings covered by cruftaceous elytra, and is divided 
into three feclions, diftinguiihable by their antenna: : The 
firft includes fuch as have their antenna; in the form of a 
club, thickeft at the farther extremity ; the feeond com- 
prehends thofe whofe antennae are filiform, or of equal 
thicknefs throughout ; and the third is referved for thofe 
iufefts that have cetaceous antennas, tapering from the 
bafe to their extreme points. There are thirty genera of 
coleopterous infects enumerated by Linnaeus, which in-< 
elude under them about eight hundred different fpecies *. 
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9 ’vide Syftem. Natures, p. 541, et feq. 
