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the prionii, which have very long jaws, and live chiefly in old wood ; 
the harlequin beetle with its very long fore legs. 
Table 3. The false kangaroo beetles ( Sagra ), with their very large 
hinder legs ; and the different kinds of tortoise beetles, and lady-birds, 
some of which are very brilliant. 
The earwigs, with their beautiful fan-like wings ; the cockroaches, 
which have been introduced into England; the praying insects, 
( Mantis ) and some of their eggs, which are formed into different 
shaped masses; the walking-sticks, some of which are provided with 
large fan-like wings, but the greater part are destitute of them and look 
like fragments of stick. 
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 wdngs, 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 ( Termes ), 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 3, 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-w 7 orm moth, and cocoon on 
birch twigs, as they 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 cicadae ; 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 ow 7 n w r eight 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, scolopendrae 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 
