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[76] Some few hemiptera and lepidoptera and orthoptera, and a large number of hymenoptera and diptera from the same expedition have been examined by Lector A.E. HOLMGREN of Stockholm.— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
A number of coleoptera, orthoptera, hymenoptera, and hemiptera give us examples, the habits of these animals never leading them to use their wings.— Evolution, Old ; New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
In the course of an hour or two he had adorned his hat with a variety of orthoptera, coleoptera, and all the other opteras known to the insect-catching profession.— The Mystery of Metropolisville
Please to tell me where I can find any account of the auditory organs in the orthoptera?— More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
But do look at these delicate orthoptera! "— Middlemarch

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