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natural HISTORY. (Animals.) 
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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 w 7 alking-sticks, some of which are provided with 
large fan-like wrings, 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 wings, from China; the different kinds of 
locusts; grasshoppers. The Neuropterous Insects , as dragon-flies, ant- 
lions, w 7 ith their curious larva, w 7 hich form a pit to catch insects; the 
scorpion-fiy ( Panorpa ) ; the w'hite ants ( Termes), so destructive in the 
tropics; and the cases of different, kinds of caddis flies. The Hymen- 
opterons Insects , as saw 7 -flies, wasps, hornets, ichneumons, sand wasps ; 
bees, as the wood-cutting bee. 
Tables 5—8. lepidopterous Insects. 
Tables 5—7. Butterflies, exhibiting the different forms of their 
wings auf! the peculiarities of their colouring. 
Table 8. T liC hawk-moths, as the privet haw 7 k-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 thej 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 
wdng-legged bug; the w T ater scorpion; the boat fly ; the cicadee; 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 owm 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. Spidencrabs, w 7 ith 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. 
