AN 



INTEODUCTION 



TO 



ENTOMOLOGY; 



OK, 



OF -tux 



NATURAL HISTORY OF INSECTS: 



COMPKISINO AK ACCOUNT OF 



NOXIOUS AND USEFUL INSECTS, 



OF THEIR JIETAJIORPHOSES, FOOD, STEATAQE5IS, HABITATIONS, SOCIETIES, 



MOTIONS, NOISES, HYBERNATION, INSTINCT, 



ETC. ETC. 



BY 



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



RECTOR OF BAKHAIVI; 



AND 



WILLIAM SPENCE, Esq., F.R.S. F.L.S. 



^tkntl^ , €bHxon 



(ELEVENTH THOUSAND) 



WITH A.\ APPENDIX RELATIVE TO THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE WORK. 



LONDON 



LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS 

 1860 



