author's preface. 



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be narrowness or exclusiveness in our work ; and at the risk 

 of being thought a preacher, I am anxious to impress more 

 enlarged views on the minds of those of the younger genera- 

 tion of Entomologists who are willing to read this Preface to 

 the end. 



W. F. KIRBY. 



Chiswick, January, 1897. 



