Alliance 4. Neuropteroid Orthoptera, Mantidæ.
Alliance 5. Typical Orthoptera, Blattidæ.
Alliance 6. Hemipteroid Orthoptera, Forficulidæ.
Order 6. Arachnoid Flies—Hemiptera or Bugs.
3525. Horny suctorial proboscis with puncturating setæ; dissimilar reticular wings, the anterior mostly pergamentaceous, the posterior membranous, and mostly capable of being folded up, as in the Chafers; eyes small, pupæ moveable.
The Bugs have much resemblance to the Mites, and Spiders are as it were winged Mites. One party of them suck blood, another vegetable sap. They manifest no artistic instincts.
The Aphides or Leaf-lice require only a single pairing, to enable them to propagate through several generations. During the summer they produce only females, and in autumn the males first appear.
Fam. 1. Tracheopteroid Hemiptera, Leptoptera.
Alliance 1. Dipteroid Hemiptera, Coccidæ, Aphidæ.
Alliance 2. Hymenopteroid Hemiptera, Cicadæ.
Alliance 3. Lepidopteroid Hemiptera, Fulgoridæ.
Fam. 2. Dictyopteroid Hemiptera, Pachyptera.
Alliance 4. Neuropteroid Hemiptera, Water-bugs.
Alliance 5. Orthopteroid Hemiptera, Narrow bugs,
Hydrometræ, Reduvii, Cimicidæ.
Alliance 6. Typical Hemiptera, Broad bugs, Capsidæ,
Lygæidæ, Coreidæ, Scutelleridæ.
COHORT III. PERFECT FLIES—CERATOPTERA, BEETLES.