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Table 4. The rest of the Orthopterous Insects. The house, field, 
and mole crickets of England; the monstrous cricket, with its extra- 
ordinary toes and curled wings, from China; the different kinds of 
locusts ; grasshoppers. The Neuropterous Insects , as dragon- flies, ant- 
lions, with their curious larva, which forms a pit to catch insects ; the 
scorpion-fly ( Panorpa ) ; the white ants ( Term.es), so destructive in the 
tropics ; and the cases of different kinds of caddis flies. The Hymen - 
opterous Insects, as saw-flies, wasps, hornets, ichneumons, sand wasps ; 
bees, as the wood-cutting bee. 
Tables 5 — 8. Lepidopterous Insects. 
Tables 5, 6, 7. Butterflies, exhibiting the different forms of their 
wings and the peculiarities of their colouring. 
Table 8. The hawk-moths, as the privet hawk-moths, the death’s 
head moth, the clear wings, the humming-bird, and the Burnets. The 
different kinds of moths, as the ghost, found in and so destructive to hop 
grounds; the leopard and goat moths, which feed on wood in their 
larva state. The Tusseh silk- worm moth, and some of the silk worked; 
the Kentish glory; the drinkers; the silk-worm moth, and cocoon on 
birch twigs, as the} T are kept in Siberia. 
Table 9. Different kinds of moths, as the large owl moth, from 
Brazil. 
Table 10. The Dipterous Insects, as the different kinds of flies, 
gnats, breeze flies. The Hemipterous Insects, bugs of all kinds : the 
wing-legged bug ; the water scorpion ; the boat fly ; the cicadse ; and 
the lantern flies from China. 
Table 11. Spiders. The tarantula; the nest of a spider with a 
moveable lid which closes the hole by its own weight when the ani- 
mal leaves it ; one has a door at each end, the nest having been in a 
clod of earth which was turned over, the animal formed a second lid 
at the opposite end. The scorpions of different countries : bristle- 
tailed scorpion ( Thelyphonus) ; the tailless scorpion ( Phrynus ), which 
has very long claws. 
Table 12. The whale lice ; sand spider; galeodes ; acari ; shepherd 
spiders ; the scarlet tick, from Africa. The iuli, scolopendrm or centi- 
pedes, so called from the number of their legs. 
Tables 13—24. Crustacea. 
Table 13. Spider crabs, with long legs and small bodies. 
Table 14. Rough crabs ; the common crab; two have a number of 
oysters growing on their backs, showing that the crabs do not change 
their skin every year, or that the oyster grows to a large size in a very 
short space of time. 
Table 15. Oval-bodied crabs. 
Table 16. The fin-footed or swimming crabs, from different parts 
of the ocean. 
Table 17. The telescope or long-eyed crab; the land crabs. 
Table 18. The square-bodied crabs ; the crested crab ; and the 
Chinese fin-footed crab. 
Table 19. The porcelain crabs; the corystes; the back-footed 
crabs ; and the death’s head crabs, which usually form for themselves a 
case from pieces of sponge or shell. 
