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At the period when the first edition of this work was presented to the public, the study 
of exotic insects, and indeed the science of Entomology itself, had made but little 
progress in this country. The collections of Francillon, Drury, MacLeay, Sir J. 
Banks, and Donovan, contained almost all that was then known of Indian Entomology, 
with which our Continental neighbours were then, as still, comparatively ignorant. 
To these collections, examined by Fabricius himself, Donovan had free access, and his 
figures of the insects therein contained, which had served as types for the descriptions 
of the Entomologist of Kiel, are especially valuable. 
The progress of Entomology, as a science, has so much advanced, as to render a 
republication of this work advisable ; at the same time, however, requiring that its 
original Linnaean style should not be retained, but that it should be brought down to 
the present state of science. This I have endeavoured to do, by rendering the specific 
characters more detailed, the nomenclature more correct, the synonyms more nume- 
rous, and the localities more precise. I have added many additional observations, 
omitting nothing which appeared in the former at all likely to instruct or interest 
the reader. Alphabetical and systematic indices of the work are introduced, as well as 
numbers, both for the plates, and for the individual figures on each plate, which were 
omitted in the former edition, which appeared in parts, commencing in the year 1800. 
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