Note 1331 — LETTER XLVIII.
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Aristotle calls winged insects Pterota when he would distinguish them from those that are apterous, and Ptilota when he contrasts them with birds. (Comp. Hist. Anim. l. iv. c. 1. with l. i. c. 5.) Sometimes he calls birds thus contrasted Schizoptera, and insects Holoptera. De Anim. Incess. c. 10.