ILLUSTRATIONS 



BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY: 

 ^ALWintrinr,! 



OR, A 



£|)nop0t0 of Mtiiqtnou^ MutU : 



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. V. 



" In his tarn parvis tamque fere nuUis qua ratio ! quanta vis I quam inextricabilis 

 perfectio! " — Plin. 



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

 solum." — Linnc. 



LONDON : 



PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR; 

 AND 



PUBLISHED BY BALDWIN AND CRADOCK. 

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