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same plate. Peculiar care has also been had, that each 
figure shall be as near as possible in size to the particu- 
lar insect which it represents ; a method which the Au- 
thor is aware, will with some persons affect the apparent 
value of the work : he has however little doubt but 
judges, and real lovers of this science, will applaud the 
sacrifice here made of show, to the more essential re- 
quisites due to accuracy, to truth, and to nature ; to 
accomplish which, is well known to be far more diffi- 
cult, than to present unnatural and magnified objects. 
The Author has a very great satisfaction in being 
able to add, that in order to render this work equally 
commodious to the purchaser, as it will be subservient 
to the science of Entomology, the disposition of the se- 
veral orders of insects will be such, that the present, as 
well as the two succeeding volumes, will each form a 
distinct, and separate work. This volume, for instance, 
includes the 1st. Order, or an Illustration of the Thirty 
Genera of the Coleopterous Insects ; — the second vo- 
lume is intended to contain Order lid. or Hemipterous 
