326 Letters Ray, 
As for the Hiftory of Infers, I 
intend not a general one, but only 
of fuch as are native of England, 
adding fuch Exoticks as are found in 
the Mufeums or Cabinets of the Cur 
rious about London, or elfew’here. 
Neither yet can I hope, that all that 
I myfelf have obferved, or fhall ob- 
tain from Friends, will amount to the 
fifth Part of the Species that are na- 
tive of this Ifland. I have, for fome 
Years together, been a diligent 
Searcher out of Papilios diurnal and 
nodurnal, and though I have found 
and defcribed near 300 Species, great 
and fmall, of that Tribe or Genus, 
within the fmall Compafs of 4 or 5 
Miles ; yet came I not to the End of 
them, fo long as I profecu'ted that 
Enquiry, but every Year afforded me 
new ones. Now the Genus of Beetles 
is n.s numerous as that of the Papilios, 
if not more. The Flies (fo at pre-. 
fent 
