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INTRODUCTION 
TO 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
The small animals comprehended under the general name of 
Insects, owe their existence to the universal laws of Nature, which 
uphold the universe, and provide by unerring rules, for the pro- 
pagation of every species, and the preservation of every individual. 
Insects are generated from eggs ; their different species are more 
numerous than those in any other branch of the animal kingdom, 
and their operations more varied. Some of them produce suste- 
nance for other animals : others are general enemies to every living 
creature ; yet they invariably fulfil the purposes of their creation, 
and in some instances, their exertions in preparing necessaries and 
even luxuries for the use of man, are not less wonderful than sa- 
We proceed now methodically to describe the several distinct 
parts and peculiar properties of some insects, together with the 
principal and subordinate characters, by which the various genera 
of the several orders of insects are distinguished and known, as laid 
