PLAN OF THE WORK. 



THIS little Work is intended for those who 

 are desirous of beginning the delightful study of 

 INSECTS, or who, having begun, find their progress 

 interrupted by numerous difficulties. Among 

 these, one of the most prominent is, the want of a 

 plain and short outline of some of the leading sub- 

 jects of inquiry, by way of a basis on which to 

 proceed a ground plan to work upon in rearing 

 a superstructure of knowledge. 



There is no English work answering to these 

 views, and the French work of M. Audouin, though 

 very excellent in its way, is too brief and too tech- 

 nical.* I have therefore sketched the following 

 outline on a plan, which, I trust, will be found use- 

 ful, taking M. Audouin's book as a sort of founda- 

 tion, enlarging where I deemed it too brief, adding 

 where I found any thing important omitted, and 

 avoiding, as much as possible, the intermixing of 

 theory and hypothesis with facts. 



* Resum^ d'Entomologie, 18mo, Paris, 1828. 



