EDITOR'S PREFACE. 



THE following translation of M. Figuier's "Les Insectes" was 

 put' into my hands, chiefly for the purpose of rendering the 

 technicalities and the names of species, when made necessary 

 by the use of French vernaculars, intelligible to English readers. 

 In this not always easy task, I have received much kind 

 assistance from Mr. Janson and Mr. F. P. Pascoe, to whom I 

 offer my best thanks. Beyond this, some generic synonyms of 

 frequent use, placed between brackets, some foot-notes en passant, 

 a few remarks on the occurrence of individual species in this 

 country, and the insertion of the short chapter on the Order 

 Strepsiptera, I have interfered but little with the sense of the 

 original. 



Y. D. 



CLEYGATE, NEAR ESHER, SURREY, 

 April, 1868. 



