IV 



PREFACE. 



more than copy the excellent figures of 

 Geoffroy and Schaeffer, the firft of which 

 are to be purchafed at as eafy a rate, per- 

 haps, as I could have afforded them, with 

 the advantage of adding another ufeful 

 work to the purchafer's library. As this 

 book, however, is written in a language 

 not univerfaily underftood, fuch perfons 

 as think new engravings abfoltitely necef- 

 fary to the well undemanding Linn^eus's 

 Syftem, w r il!, I hope, foon have an oppor- 

 tunity of procuring them 5 for, feniible 

 that nothing is fo conducive to the per- 

 fection of entomological fcience as the 

 knowledge of the fpecies, I intend com- 

 municating to the Public descriptions and 

 figures, coloured after nature, of a large 

 number of very rare infedts, from different 

 parts of the world, amongft which will be 

 contained fome not met with in any col- 

 lection but my own, and not defcribed by 

 any author whatever. In this Work, I 

 {hall endeavour to infert one fpecimen at 

 leaft, of every Linnaean Genus, with the 

 parts from which the generical chara&ers 

 are taken, delineated in fuch a manner as 



