PRESERVATION OF INSECTS. 287 



CHAPTER VI. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL BOOKS. 



923. As the author intends this for an intro- 

 ductory work on Entomology, and has done his 

 best to make it as complete as he was able, it 

 would be but a poor compliment to his readers, 

 after giving them so much trouble, were he to tell 

 them of the necessity of buying other introductions. 



924. Works descriptive of species, will, how- 

 ever, be found highly essential, and the author will 

 give a list of all the British ones with which he is 

 acquainted, and such foreign ones as he considers 

 to be peculiarly useful ; he will arrange the books in 

 the same order in which insects are classified in 

 the preceding Book. 



925. Lepidoptera. 1. British Lepidoptera 

 (Lepidoptera Britannicd), by Adrian Hardey 

 Haworth, 1803, et seq., being published in four 

 parts. One volume, pp. 586, with plates. This 

 work is written in Latin ; it contains concise and 

 accurate descriptions of the British Lepidoptera, 



