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PLATE 1
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A group of insects representing five common entomological Orders. Figure 2 is a damselfly, a kind of dragonfly, from New Guinea, Order Odonata; 4 is a grasshopper, and 6 a winged walking-stick of Japan, representing two families of Orthoptera; 1 and 8 are sucking bugs, Order Hemiptera, which includes also the aphids and the cicadas; 3 is a wasp from Paraguay, and 7 a solitary bee from Chile, Order Hymenoptera; 5 is a two-winged fly of the Order Diptera, from Japan. To entomologists these insects are known as follows: 1, Parypes laetus; 2, unidentified; 3, Pepsis completa; 4, Heliastus benjamini; 5, Pantophthalmus vittatus; 6, Micadina phluctanoides; 7, Caupolicana fulvicollis; 8, Margasus afzeli