PREFACE. 



IN A WORK entitled 'Insects at Home' I have 

 described and figured the most conspicuous examples 

 of every order of British Insects. 



That book is necessarily a work of some dimensions, 

 and occupies nearly seven hundred pages. It has been 

 suggested that as more interest is generally taken in 

 the Beetles, the Butterflies, and Moths, than in the 

 other orders, it would be as well to publish an 

 abridged account of those two orders. This has 

 been done, and the reader will find embodied in the 

 present work some of the more important discoveries 

 which have been made since ' Insects at Home ' was 

 originally published. 



J. G. WOOD. 



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