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PREFACE. 
It is not the intention of the writer of these 
letters to offer a system of Entomology, but 
merely a short abstract of some of the more 
elaborate works on that subject ; which, how- 
ever superior in importance, are more calcu- 
lated for the scientific student, and often con- 
tain details more interesting to the physiologist 
than to the juvenile reader. The writer has 
o therefore endeavoured to avoid the minute- 
ness which might render the subject tedious, 
and has only to add, that her information is 
derived from Reaumur's Memoires, Shaw's 
Lectures, and that interesting work, the In- 
troduction to Entomology ; from which, in 
fact, the principal accounts are taken, and in 
which the discoveries of other naturalists are 
collected in the most attractive form. 
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