r. -7 ] 



a tempefluous ocean, a moft flngular 

 inflance of her zeal for this fcience ! 



The minutenefs of infects makes it 

 more difficult to have a proper idea of 

 them by defcription than by drawings 

 colouredfrom nature, fuch as are given 

 us by Goedart, Albin, Roefel, Wilkes, 

 Admiral ? Merian, Clerk ? Efrret, Sha^ 

 effer, and Harris, 



The principal authors who have 

 treated of infe&s fyftematically, are 

 Linnseus, De Geer, Poda, Scopoli, 

 Shultzer, GeofFroy, Gronovius, and 

 5haefFer. The exotic or extra Euro- 

 pean infedts have never been profef- 

 fedly written on, neverthelefs a great 

 number of them are figured in the fol- 

 lowing works : 



Clerkii Icones infectorum rariorum, 

 Msriana Infe&a Surinamenfia. 



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