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The Table in the middle of this room contains 
a selection illustrative of the orders and genera 
of the class Insecta, or Insects. 
Case 1 . Begins with the Coleoptera, or 
beetles. 
(A) contains the families Cicindelidae, Cara- 
bidae (ground beetle), and Dyticidae, the water 
beetle. 
(B) The families Buprestidae, Elateridae 
(spring beetles), Telephoridae, Silphiadae, (the 
burying beetle), Lucanidae (the stag beetle), &c. 
(C) The Geotrupidae, Copridae, and Scara- 
baeidae. In this last family will be seen the cele¬ 
brated sacred beetle of the Egyptians (Scarabae- 
us sacer of Linne.); Orchytes rhinoceros, or rhino¬ 
ceros-beetle, Dynastes hercules, hercules beetle, 
several interesting species of the Cetonidae, and 
many genera of the Heteromera. Of the family 
Curculionidae, the diamond beetle, the palm 
Calandra, &c. 
Case 2. 
(D) Begins with the Prionidae, and contains 
many beautiful species of the Cerambycidae, or 
capricorn beetles, Crioceridae, Chrysonelidae, the 
Cassida, or tortoise beetle, &c. 
To the order Dermaptera belongs the Forfi- 
cula, or earwig : a specimen will be seen with 
the wings expanded. 
(E) In this division are arranged the orders 
Orthoptera and Dictyoptera. To the former 
belongs 
SALOON. 
Nat. Hist. 
