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ADVERTISEMENT. 



I WISH it had been in my power to 

 have given a perfect conclusion to the 

 Zoology of our country: but my small 

 acquaintance with Insects, and the 

 fourth division of the Vlth class, Litho- 

 phyta and Zoophyta, forbad me to meddle 

 with them. The Public has little reason 

 to regret this omission, since the universal 

 genius John Reinhold Forster, has 

 hinted * a design-]- of undertaking the first ; 

 and my late worthy friend Mr. Ellis, 

 (whom LiNNiEUs so justly stiles Lynceus) 

 has in a great measure executed the last. 



* Catalogue of British Insects. 2. 



f [This design has never been executed. Mr. Donovan 

 has published fourteen volumes of the Natural History of 

 British Insects ; Mr. Marsham one volume of an Entomo- 



vol. iv. a 



