ILLUSTRATIONS 



O F 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Wherein are exhibited 



Upwards of Two Hundred and Forty FIGURES 



O F 



EXOTIC INSECT S, 



According to their different GENERA; 

 Very few of which have hitherto heen figured by any A U T H O R, 



Being engraved and coloured from Nature, with the greateft Accuracy, 

 and under the A U T H O R's own Inspection, 



On FIFTY COPPER-PLATES. 



With a particular DESCRIPTION of each INSECT: 



Interfperfed with Remarks and Reflections on the Nature and Properties 



of many of them. 



By D. D R U R Y. 



To which is added, 



A TRANSLATION into FRENCH. 



The Men 



Whom Nature's Works can charm, with God himfelf 



Hold Converfe ; grow familiar, Day by Day, 



With his Conceptions, ac~t upon his Plan ; 



And form to his, the Relifh of their Souls. Akenside. 



LONDON: 



Printed for the AUTHOR, 

 And fold by B. White, at Horace's Head in Fleet-ftreet. 1770. 



