. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. —An Ear- wig. (From Packard.) most of them herbivorous. They form four distinct sections: 1st, CuESORiA, Cockroaches; 2d, Eaptatoria,Mantes; 3d, Ambulatoeia, Walking-sticks; 4th, Saltatoria, Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Lo- custs. "Suborder Dermaptera* {, skin; rre/jov, wing), or "Earwigs, consisting of the single family Forflculidee, which may be placed with the Orthoptera. They are rare insects with us, but very common in Europe, where there prevails a superstition that they get into the ear and cause all sorts of tro
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. —An Ear- wig. (From Packard.) most of them herbivorous. They form four distinct sections: 1st, CuESORiA, Cockroaches; 2d, Eaptatoria,Mantes; 3d, Ambulatoeia, Walking-sticks; 4th, Saltatoria, Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Lo- custs. "Suborder Dermaptera* {, skin; rre/jov, wing), or "Earwigs, consisting of the single family Forflculidee, which may be placed with the Orthoptera. They are rare insects with us, but very common in Europe, where there prevails a superstition that they get into the ear and cause all sorts of trouble. The front wings are small and leathery; the hind ones have the form of a quadrant, and look like a fan when opened; and the characteristic feature is a pair of forceps-like appendages at the end of the body, best developed in the males. They are nocturnal in habit, hiding during the day in any available recess. Tlie female Iq^ys her eggs in the ground, and singularly enough, broods over them and over her young, the latter crowding under her like chicks under a ; "Order KEUROPTERA (ysD^oov, nerve; ttts/jov, wing),or]S"erve-winged insects. Characterized by having the wings reticulate with numerous ____ veins so as to look like net-work. The order forms two natural di^ds- ions, the first including all those which undergo a complete, and the sec- ond, called Pseudo-neu- roptera (Dictyotoptera, Burmeister), those which undergo an in- complete metamorpho- sis. * * * The in- sects of this order are, as a whole, more lowly organized, and more generally aquatic, than either of the others. A natural arrangement of them is difficult on account of their degrada- tional character. They present forms which are synthetic and closely approach the other orders, and the evolutionist naturally looks upon them as furnishing an idea of what the archetypal forms of our present insects may have been. They are, as a rule, large and sluggish, with *Eiiplesoptera of some autho
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