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MEMOIR OF LATREILLE.

his death. Of this the following table will afford a pretty accurate view. The articulated animals are here designated by the common name of Condylopes.

I. Apiropoda. Condylopes with more than six legs.

Class 1. Crustacea.
2. Arachnides.
3. Myriapoda.

II. Hexapoda. Condylopes with six legs.

Class 4. Insecta.
Without wings. No metamorphosis. With mandibles, Ord.
With suctorial mouths


1. Thysanoura.
2. Parasita.
Metamorphosis complete 3. Siphonoptera.

The upper covering the lower like a sheath. Elytroptera.

Gnawing insects.

Suctorial insects

Elytra corneous. Metamorph. complete. Elytra corneous. Metamorph. incomplete. Elytra coriaceous. Metamorph. incomplete.


4. Coleoptera. 5. Dermaptera. 6. Orthoptera. 7. Hemiptera.

With wings.

Wings alike. Gymnoptera.

Four wings.

Organs of the mouth formed for gnawing. Wings reticulated. Wings with ramose nervures.

8. Neuroptera. 9. Hymenoptera.

Organs formed for suction 10. Lepidoptera.

Two wings

With moveable appendages on the prothorax. 11. Strepsiptera.

With halteres 12. Diptera.