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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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The Tables 1—12. Insects. 
Tables 1—8. The Coleopterous Insects or Beetles; the leaf-beetle 
or mormolyce, from Java; the burying beetle ( Necrophorus ) ; the stag- 
beetle, with its long jaws like the horns of deer; the scarabeeus, which 
incloses its eggs in balls of dung, and was esteemed sacred by the 
Egyptians; the rhinoceros, elephant, and bubaline beetles, which have 
the front of the head or the front of the thorax produced into variously 
shaped horns or humps. 
Table 2. The buprestidse, with their metallic colours, the hard wings 
of which are often used to ornament dresses in the place of spangles; 
the lantern spring-jack (Elater noctilucus ), with a spot on each side of 
the thorax, luminous when living; the various kinds of glow-worms, 
curculians or long-nosed beetles, as the diamond beetle, from Brazils; 
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 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 ( Terrnes ), so destructive in the 
tropics ; and the cases of different kinds of caddis flies. The Hymen 
apterous Insects , as saw-flies, w 7 asps, 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, w T hich 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 they are kept in Siberia. 
Table 9. Different kinds of moths, as the large owl moth, from 
Brazils. 
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 cicadse ; and 
the lantern flies from China. 
Table 11. Spiders. The tarantula; the nest of a spider with a - 
moveable lid winch closes the hole by its own weight w T hen the ani¬ 
mal leaves it; one has a door at each end, the nest having been in a 
