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INSECTS. 
The fex is male and female, or j 
of the more perfeil fex. evoted to labour for thofc 
feged by cafting off the differe^nt coIso?c£r\’' eft 
fea infea IS inclofed. The egg is firft cxcluH /I'" Per- 
contains the infed in its fmalSf ftate frorn and 
larva, grub, or caterpillar, of a moift ’foft n.KO is produce.! the 
«ow in niotion, often with numerous fcVt r. wings, 
ftenlc and very voracious of its proper fL^- with none, 
IT nymph wilier” T 
than thelaft, confined in a narrow compaft 
web, often ivithout a mouth : and fomTr ’ . "*■ mdofed in a 
out feet: efcaping from this laft confmem'SS h'?- ^"'"^^nies with- 
aaive ,nfe£T, furnilhed with antenn/ tii^wmes the perfea 
though moft of them are fenfiblc of the v hr .;- P.'-nJi^bly*^ deaf, 
more numerous than the fpecies of plaL i «« 
greater range feem fewer; are of aft animals 
the aquatic ones and a few others, are animal - K 
vient to the purpofes of nature, by prefervine a d ^'^come fubfer- 
plants, by confummg whatever is Superfluous ^ =^niong 
by con.nb„,i„g,„ „e 
,hofe on which .h°ytr?iaS„Si"fo°"j th"-’’ 
are beft taken from their habitations, that ’th^ft ‘"ivial names 
may ferve to elucidate the views and the policy 
They are 
I. COLEOPTERA. 
II. HEMIPTERA. 
III. LEPIDOp-fERA, 
IV. NEUROPTERA. 
V/ HYMENOPTERA. 
VI. DIPTERA. 
VII. APTERA. 
divided into 7 Orders. 
""SgV, tj>“' ““"““"S .i,h 
'US, in- 
reScubtef taif 
tTatmel^ vvfth t Tin ^ 
2/""' 2 , with a poifer under each 
o in either fex. 
expm- 
