preface: 



Vlll 



when I could learn it) to apply to each 

 could it moft familiar Englifh name, by 

 which any fpecics belonging to it is known* 



If this Eflay (hall conduce to the render- 

 ing fo rational an entertainment as the 

 contemplation and ftudy of the works of 

 Nature more univerfal, or more pleafing* 

 I fliall think my trouble more than re- 

 paid, and wifli it no other fuccefs than that 

 its defedls may induce fome more 

 able Entomologift to favour the Public 

 with one more perfect. 



CORRECTIONS and ADDITIONS. 



Page 25, 1. 1, inflead of Chcmies and Coccus, read, the Cbermes of Linnaus, 

 Fage 26, 1. 6, for ghnus read gerus. Page 27, 1. 2a, for Ambors 3 read 

 Authors. Page &■)'>, I. 1 7, for Crioeeris, read Crioceris. Page 49, 1. 3, 

 lor in general, read for the moji part. Page 99, I. 13, after the word 

 crotchet add, and a fetaceous, lateral, articulated finger ; being Qfc. Page i.j i, 

 1. 3, For containing, read corfifivg. Page 112, 1. 1, tor belifrm, read 

 ebelifcrm. P^ige 122, I. 18, after the word they, add/e. Page 123^ 

 1. 3! 4, omit the words like Cbermes. Page 127, 1. 5, for genetically, 

 read generally. Page 136, 1. 3, 4, for Jomeivbat refembling, read and 

 jpmeivbat rejemble. Page 154, 1. 14, for larva, read larva Id. 1. 22, for 

 JPbryganea,xtzc\ Pbrygania. Page 165, J. 5, omit the word and. Page 1 81, 

 1. 8, add alter the word of generical, or. Id. 1. 9, for names, read 

 ■name. Page 20S, 1. antipenult. for their, read the. Page 209, for, 

 midfiky read mtddh. Page 213, 1. 16, for Vo'.unuUa, read Volucella, 

 Line 24, id. id. P^ge 229, J. penult, for cbryfalis, read cbryfaltds. 

 Page 244, 1. 3, for larva^ icad larva. 



