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ROOM X. 
Nat. Hist. 
TABLE 
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TABLE 
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part of the Museum should be inferior to the 
rest in point of preservation. 
Among these insects will be found the great 
Hercules beetle ; the elephant beetle ; different 
species of golden beetles ; the insect known by 
the name of walking leaf ; the great lanthorn fly; 
locusts of various kinds ; butterflies ; moths ; 
dragon flies ; bees ; wasps, &c. 
In the Divisions 1 to 4 are the apterous in¬ 
sects : scorpions ; spiders, among which is the 
tarantula; scolopendrae or centipedes; juli or 
galley-worms : also a very numerous collection 
of chrysalides or aureliae ; various nests of wasps, 
&c. 
In the Divisions 5 to 8 are the crustaceous 
animals ; the West-Indian land crab ; lobsters; 
various spider-crabs ; soldier-crabs ; the Mono- 
culus Polyphemus, usually called the king or 
horse-shoe crab. 
A larger series of the insect tribe, among which 
are the more select specimens, is, in order to 
prevent their receiving further injury by constant 
exposure to light, deposited in a large cabinet 
inserted in Case 24 , and in four smaller ones 
under the Tables 1 and 3. 
table This table contains a great variety of asteriae or 
3 ° star fish ; Medusa’s heads; echini or sea urchins ; 
and 
