LETTER VII

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iEAIt CONSTANCE,

LEST you should not recollect the characteristics of the second order, lIE Ml PT t II .1 shall repeat them before Ii introduce to your notice the species that compose it. The wing covers are of a leathery texture, like vellum nud cross each other, instead of meeting in a sttigbt line.

The first genus, Blalki. Cockroach, presents a collection of very disagreeable, destructive insects,, well known in kitchens and bake houses, where they consume meal and dough. Though these creatures are disgusting and troublesome inmates in our own country, yet, by comparing them with some of the same genus in warm climates, we are taught to prize the advantages of our highly-fhvoured island, which is exempt from such grievous incon

veniencesc rive Bialla g'igantea is the annoyance of many of the warmer parts of Asia, A.fric~i, acrd

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