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elucidating the feience of Britifh Entomology, upon a ftiil 

 more extenfive fcale than even this fuggeftion intimated ; 

 and it is under this idea, he once more folicits the at- 

 tention of his former fubfcribers and the public, in favour 

 of a fecond part of his original undertaking. 



The object of the ten preceding volumes was avowedly 

 to comprehend a fele£tion only of the raoft beautiful, or 

 otherwife particularly interefting fpecies of infects from 

 all the various clalfes, but more efpecially from that of -the 

 Lepidopterous tribes ; more was not promifed, and could 

 not have been expected. When, therefore, the author 

 ventures to extend the limits of his original defign, the 

 motives for it ihould be unequivocally ftated. It is not 

 upon the addition merely of a few fele6fc fubjeQs omitted 

 in the former work, either in a ftrpplemental, or any other 

 form, that he now conceives he ought to reft, his claims to 

 further notice, but by declaring what it is his intention to 

 fulfil ; that the future volumes, with the preceding, ihall 

 comprife, collectively, a general hiftory, and elucidation in 

 appropriate defcriptions, and figures, of the whole Ento- 

 Mologia BitiTANNiCA, fo far as his own cabinet, 

 and the obliging communications of his friends will permit 

 —And here the author begs leave to ftate, that the time 

 elapfed fince the conclufion of the former part of the 

 work has been employed in a manner beft calculated t© 

 give effect to this delign. Independently of many valu- 

 able acquifitions collected by himfelf and various friends 

 in remote parts of the kingdom, he has the fatisfa&ion 

 to obferve, that two entire cabinets, of eminent celebrity, 

 have been lately added to that which he before poiTeffed. 



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