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really difcouraged from undertaking fo 

 extenfive a talk for the due execution 

 of which I have neither the requifite 

 patience, leifure, or inclination. To 

 defcribe the Probofcis, Antennae, or Pin- 

 nae of a Flea ; to delineate the Colours 

 of a Butterfly, or the Mechanifm of a 

 Caterpillar, would to me be tedious. 

 That " Natura nunquam magis quam 

 in minimis tota eft," as Pliny fays, 

 may be, in fome meafure, true ; but I 

 have not yet ftudied myfelf into a habit 

 of inveftigating the minutiae of Nature, 

 and ihall therefore only take a curfory 

 review of the Infects of this Country, 

 and with all poffible brevity defcribe a 

 few of thofe which are moft worthy of 

 attention. 



Animals of the Beetle Tribe in 

 Guiana are extremely numerous, and fo 

 different and uncommon in their forma- 

 tion, that it fee ms as if Nature fported 

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