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INTRODUCTION 



ENTOMOLOGY/ 



OR, 



ELEMENTS 



OF 



. THE NATURAL HISTORY OE INSECTS : 



coMPRisma 

 AN ACCOUNT OF NOXIOUS AND USEFUL INSECTS, 



OF THEIR METAMORPHOSES, FOOD, STRATAGEMS, HABITATIONS, SOCIETIES, MOTIONS, 

 NOISES, HYBERNATION, INSTINCT, ETC. ETC. 



lintlj |3laU0. 



BY 



WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. h L.S. 



RECTOR OF BARHAM, 

 AND 



WILLIAM SPENCE, Es(i. F.R.S. U L.S. 



FROM THE 



SIXTH LONDON EDITION, 



WHICH WAS CORRECTED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED, 



iKadelph 



.^n 



PHII^DELPHIA: ; 

 LEA AND^LANCHARD 

 1846. 



