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CHAPTER VI. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL BOOKS. 



923. As the author intends this for an intro- 

 ductory work on Entomology, and has done his 

 best to make it as complete as he was able, it 

 would be but a poor compliment to his readers, 

 after giving them so much trouble, were he to tell 

 them of the necessity of buying other introductions. 



924. Works descriptive of species, will, how- 

 ever, be found highly essential, and the author will 

 give a list of all the British ones with which he is 

 acquainted, and such foreign ones as he considers 

 to be peculiarly useful ; he will arrange the books in 

 the same order in which insects are classified in 

 the preceding Book. 



925. Lepidoptera. — 1. British Lepidoptera 

 {Lepidoptera Britannica), by Adrian Hardey 

 Haworth, 1803, et seq., being published in four 

 parts. One volume, pp. 58G, with plates. This 

 work is written in Latin ; it contains concise and 

 accurate descriptions of the British Lepidoptera, 



