NATURAL HISTORY 



OF 



Insects, 



CHAPTER I. OF INSECTS IN GENERA!.. 



Sect. I. — General idea of the numher mid variety of In- 

 feEis : Inducements to the Jtiidy of Knty7nology, Hiftory 

 of this Science, 



vVe are nov*^ to enter upon that department of Natural 

 Kiilorj which treats of Infedls ; by the ftudy of which, 

 we are condudted into a province the moll extenfive, 

 and by far the moft populous, of the v/hole empire of 

 nature. The refidence of quadrupeds, as we have feen, 

 is confined to the land ; that of fifhes to the water ; ^vhile 

 birds are enabled to rife from the furface of thefe ele- 

 ments into the aerial regions. Nature, however, has 

 afligned a flill more extenfive range to thofe animals 

 upon whofe hiftory we are now to enter. They are 

 iound to pervade every part of her dominions, iu num- 

 VoL, HI. Q^q bers 



