

KDITOR’S PREFACE. 
E following translation of M. Figuier’s ‘Les Insectes” was 
; into my hands, chiefly for the purpose of rendering the 
anicalities and the names of species, when made necessary 
the use of French vernaculars, intelligible to Iinglish readers. 
this not always easy task, I have received much kind 
stance from Mr. Janson and Mr. F. P. Pascoe, to whom I 
r my best thanks. Beyond this, some generic synonyms of 
juent use, placed between brackets, some foot-notes en passant, 
ew remarks on the occurrence of individual species in this 
ntry, and the insertion of the short chapter on the Order 
spsiptera, I have interfered but little with the sense of the 
rinal. 
Mee)! 
LEYGATE, NEAR NsHER, SURREY, 
April, 1868. SS iS) 3 
















