METAMORPHOSES OF THE STONE FLY. of difference seemed to some naturalist that they have placed these phryganeids in an order by themselves to which they Most entomologists however retain them as true though very aberrant neuropters reminding us strangely of the lower moths. In fact this entire order excepting the few typical fami lies is made up of very varied forms often strangely imita tive of other and distant groups. Thus the white ants or termites are neuropters which in social developments and even in appearance greatly resemble the true ants among the hymenoptera. The little damp-lice that infest our books and cabinets and are generally mistaken for true lice (which are hemipters) are in reality wing less members of this order. sequently the friend of the gardener and its next of kin the myrmeleon the parent of that cunning ant lion of whose wonderful pitfalls every child has read are more readily recognizable as belonging here but even among these we find the characteristic tendency to aberration from type strongly exemplified. Packard quotes an instance of a great South African myrmeleon which in the appearance of its wings as well as in its manner of flight resembles a huge ard moreover adds to the heterogeneous characters of the order by including in it two families that are frequently sects with three bristles as a tail that are to be found in dark and damp recesses and amongst sugar and sweetmeats. yet Packard considers them as such. Be this as it may we may well ask what is the meaning of this difficulty we have in fixing the limits of the neuropterous order? Why is it that we are obliged to include in it so many forms that seem to belie their natural affinities ? It is because this order is the lowest among the true insects and thus tells us of an early stage of insect existence when the characters that now serve to distinguish the various orders were still held in common by the general insect type ; and when the latter itself had not yet become so dis
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