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PART I. 
B O O K II. 
Of INSECTS . 
I NSECTS are animals, whofe bodies are neither regularly covered with 
hair, feathers, or fcales , as in the generality of other animals, but either 
with a hard, and as it were horny, fubftance, or with a foft and tender Jkin ; and 
of which the far greater part, that is, all that have a hard covering to their 
bodies, have on their heads antennae, or, as they are ufually called, horns or feelers. 
Of the Infers, feme have no wings, others have: they may hence be conveniently ar¬ 
ranged into two feries, under the names of Apteria ajid P ter aria. 
INSECTS. 
Series the Firjl. 
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APTERIA, 
Thofe which have no wings - \\ . - 
O F the Infeds of this feries, fome have no limbs, others have : they are, according 
to this diftindion, naturally arranged under two clafles, under the names of 
Anarthra and Podaria. 
APTERIA, or InfeEls having no wings . 
Clafs the Firjl . 
ANARTHRA. 
NSECTS which have their bodies covered with a foft fkin 3 and have no limbs. 
This clafs comorehends the Infeds commonly called Worms and the Leeches . 
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