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natural history. (Animals.) [n. zool. gal. 
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 ( 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 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 w r ater 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, scolopendrse 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. 
