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prise within our scanty limits, all the general points of inte- 

 rest with which the science of entomology is so eminently 

 pregnant. If we have given such a view as may prove suffi- 

 cient for the comprehension of the ensuing scientific details 

 of our respected author, and if, though at the humblest 

 distance, we have contributed, not to improve the science, 

 but to spread a taste for a pursuit so highly calculated to 

 expand and elevate the mind, and impress it with the truest 

 principles of philosophical religion, we have attained our 

 object and are satisfied. We shall now in imitation of Messrs. 

 Kirby and Spence, terminate this feeble sketch with the same 

 quotation with which they have closed their Introduction : 



" Happy, if full of days — but happier far. 

 If, ere we yet discern life's evening star. 

 Sick of the service of a world that feeds 

 Its patient drudges with dry chafFand weeds, 

 We can escape from custom's idiot sway 

 To serve the Sovereign we were born t'' obey. 

 Then sweet to muse upon his skill display'd 

 (Infinite skill) in all that he has made ! 

 To trace, in Nature's most minute design. 

 The signature and stamp of power divine — 

 Contrivance intricate, expressed with ease. 

 Where unassisted sight no beauty sees ; 

 The shapely limb, and lubricated joint, 

 Within the small dimensions of a point ; 

 Muscle and nerve miraculously spun. 

 His mighty work, who speaks and it is done, 

 Th' invisible in things, scarce seen reveal'd. 

 To whom an atom is an ample field ; 

 To wonder at a thousand insect forms. 

 These hatch'd, and those resuscitated worms. 

 New life ordained and brighter scenes to share, 

 Once prone on earth, now buoyant upon air, 

 Whose shape would make them, had they bulk and size. 

 More hideous foes than fancy can devise ; 



