ILLUSTRATIONS 



O F 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Wherein are exhibited 



Upwards of Two Hundred F I G URES 



O F 



EXOTIC INSECTS, 



According to their different GENER A ; 



Very few of which have hitherto been. figured by any AUTHOR, , 



Being engraved and coloured from Nature, , with the greateft AccuRAcy 9 

 and under the AUTHOR's own Inspection, . 



On FIFTY COPPER-PLATES, 



With a particular DESCRIPTION of each INSECT: 



Interfperfed with Remarks and Reflections on the Nature and Properties 



of many of them, „ 



By D, D R U R Y. 



To which is added 



A TRANSLATION into FRENCH. 



Each Mofs, 



Each Shell, each crawling InfecT:, holds a Rank 



Important in the Plan of Him, who fram'd 



This Scale of Beings ; holds a Rank, which loft 



Would break the Chain, and leave behind a Gap 



Which Nature's felf would rue. Stiilinofleet. 



VOL. III. 



LONDON: 

 Printed for the A U T H O R, 

 And fold by B. White, at Horace's Head in Fleet-flreet. 1782^ 



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