EDITOR’S PREFACE. 
(FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. ) 
Tue following translation of M. Figuier’s “Les Insectes” was 
put into my hands, chiefly for the purpose of rendering the 
technicalities and the names of species, when made necessary 
by the use of French vernaculars, intelligible to English readers. 
In this not always easy task, I have received much kind 
assistance from Mr. Janson and Mr. F. P. Pascoe, to whom I 
offer my best thanks. Beyond this, some generic synonyms of 
frequent use, placed between brackets, some foot-notes en passant, 
a few remarks on the occurrence of individual species in this 
country, and the insertion of the short chapter on the Order 
Strepsiptera, I have interfered but little with the sense of the 
original. 
Ye D: 
CusyGaTEr, NEAR Hsuer, Surrey, 
April, 1868. 
