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few exceptions, being drawn immediately from those 
insects which are contained in the Author’s cabinet. 
And here it will be necessary to mention, that all 
imaginable care has been taken, not to admit the figure 
of any one insect into this work, where the least doubt 
remained of its being a native of this country. Respect- 
ing the classification, the Author has exerted his utmost 
endeavours by a minute investigation of each object (as 
far at least as his poor abilities would allow), to place 
each individual in the respective order and genus to 
which its figure, and peculiar characteristics entitled it, as 
laid down in the Linnean System. At the same time, 
the Entomologist is acquainted, that to preserve a gene- 
ral uniformity in the disposition of the figures, no par- 
ticular regard has been paid to place together those sub- 
divisions or sections of genera, as defined in the illus- 
trations at large ; but where an essential difference was 
observed in the sexes, or a striking variety in the same 
species, strict attention was then had to show that va- 
riety, and also to give both male and female in the 
