NOTES 
ON 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
SECTION I. 
ON THE LARVZ OF INSECTS. 
Tus section comprises descriptions of insects 
in the larva or pupa state. To those who are 
unacquainted with these subjects it may not be 
amiss to give a brief outline of their general 
characters, though it must be borne in mind, in 
the perusal of this work, that it is not intended 
to treat the subjects on natural history techni- 
cally, but familiarly. 
The term insect has been greatly restricted 
by modern naturalists. Many groups, which 
Linneus and others included under that name, 
have been separated from them, as spiders 
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