GIS ^ I ILLUSTRATIONS 



I/, 5" 



BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY; 



OR, A 

 CONTAINING 



THEIR GENERIC AND SPECIFIC DISTINCTIONS ; 



AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR METAMORPHOSES, TIMES OF 



APPEARANCE, LOCALITIES, FOOD, AND ECONOMY, 



AS FAR AS PRACTICABLE. 



BY JAMES FRANCIS STEPHENS, F.L.S. 



MEMBER OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ETC. 



EMBELLISHED WITH COLOURED FIGURES OF THE RARER AND 

 MORE INTERESTING SPECIES. 





MANDIBULATA. 

 VOL. I. 



" In his tarn parvis tamque fere nullis quae ratio ! quanta vis ! quam inextricabilis 

 perfectio !" — Plln. 



" Finis Creationis Telluris est gloria Dei, ex opera Naturje, per Hominem 

 solum.", — LinnL 



LONDON: 



PKINTED FOR THE AUTHOR ; 



PUBLISHED BY BALDWIN AND CRADOCK; 



SOLD BY J. CHURCHILL, SAVILLE-HOUSE, LEICESTER-SQUARE, 

 AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 



1828. 



