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cOuntries, {q that we are become pret- 

 ty well acquainted with the greateft 

 part of the European infects in their 

 perfect or fly ftate. From the infects 

 colle&ed m the Southern parts of 

 France (more than 300 of which were 

 fent to our Prefident, by the moft no- 

 ble Soubry, Treafurer of France, re- 

 liding at Lyons) the number of fpecies 

 was conliderably increafed. A cabinet 

 full of the irifects of Barbary was alfo 

 fent him from the accomplifhed Bran- 

 der, Conful at Algiers; and a very con- 

 iiderable number from Carolina, in 

 America, was received from the very 

 ingenious Garden, which greatly in- 

 creafed the number of Arctic or Nor- 

 thern infecrs. Our knowlege of the 

 TropicaL or Indian infects, as they are 

 called, is very limited. The larger 

 fort of the Lepidoptera, preferved in the 

 eabinets of the curious, and thofe col- 



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