G.nS63\ ILLUSTRATIONS 



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 £/uT 



BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY ; 



Sunopsitis of Iiitiieeitous! Insects: 



CONTAINING 



THEIR GENERIC AND SPECIFIC DISTINCTIONS; 



AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR METAMORPHOSES, TIMES OF 



APPEARANCE, LOCALITIES, FOOD, AND ECONOMY, 



AS FAR AS PRACTICABLE. 



BY JAMES FRANCIS STEPHENS, F.L.S. 



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MEMBER OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ETC. fQ \j)" 



EMBELLISHED WITH COLOURED FIGURES OF THE RARER AND 

 MORE INTERESTING SPECIES. 



HAUSTELLATA. 

 VOL. I. 



" In his tarn parvis tamque fere nuUis quae ratio ! quanta vis ! quaui inextricabilis 

 pcrfectio !" — PUn.. 



" Finis Creationis Telluris est gloria Dei, ex opera Natural, per Hominem 

 solum." — Limit. 



LONDON : 



PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR ; 



PUBLISHED BY BALDAVIN AND CRADOCK; 



SOLD BY J. CHURCHILL, SAVILLE-HOUSE, LEICESTKR-SQUARE, 

 AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 



1828. 



