! oiIIi;jOHA!^ESeGDARTllIS<^^ ^ 
Englifhj and Methodized 5 ab/f A f^e Addition of 
Notes. jBj^ Martin Lifter The Figtires Etched upon 
rr; CPftper^:^ Wr. PI. York, Printed by J. VVTiite,/(?r ^^e 
. «" ^ •"■ ' - 
THe Learned Interpreter doth conj^fture, That G^?- 
had no defign of Publifliing his Papers of 
this Subje^h but only to gratify his Phancy, and the Ex- 
cellent Skill he had in Limning- As appears from his almoft 
total negleft of Defcriptions^ which he had fufficient op- 
portunity to have well performed rBefides the tumultuous 
Order m which they werefirftPublifhed, after his Death. 
So that he ftcms rather to have diverted himleif by con- 
verfing with thefc (which he did for 40 Tears) 
than to have given himlelf the trouble of well underftan- 
ding them, 
,7 And yet after all this ffalt^^ we (hall find 
-him every where, very ju(t and true in his obfervations. 
That all the he writes of^he moft induftrioufly/e<rf, 
and brought up totheir Change^ which is more than any 
Man ever did before him. And though theHiJiorys he hath 
given, may (eem but few, for fo long a time 5 yet in thefe 
few, we have fomething of all the Cenu^^s of InfeBs that 
areinNature. 
- ' He left his Papers in Dutch 5 which were leveral Times 
put forth in Latim^ by divers /«ferfre^er/ $ but tliofe 
wboly ignorant in Natural Hijiory 5 and their Comments 
•altogether impertinent to the Explication of any one Hi- 
jiory of (5^«?d«^r////. Which therefore,in this Tranjlation arc 
all omitted 3 and many Guriousand Luciferous^e/sa^^r^f^e/ 
fub)oyned to the Authors Text. Which is here alio re- 
duced to a ^e^At?^ more agreeable to the feveral Tribes 
of Infeffs. Whdteby thofe^who have leifure, maybe put 
into a ready way ofpurfuing this Part of Natural Bifiorf. 
