ADVERTISEMENT. 
or Hawk Moths: none of the larger kinds of Phalenz 
of Moth tribes have been overlooked, and the number 
of thofe of an inferior fize that are extremely rare, or 
particularly beautiful, are altogether confiderable. Those 
are chiefly alluded to, becaufe general obferves are more 
immediately interefted with the uncommon elegance of 
the Lepidopterous tribes than-—others. In general, 
however, the reader will meet with fome information in 
every department, as nothing material in any cabinet to 
which he as accefs has been omitted. . 
The arrangement of the fubjetts is for the moft part 
conformable to the fyftem of Linneus, with occafional 
reference to the writings of Fabricius. This is defigned to 
aflift the labours of the praétical Entomologift, and by - 
combining novelty with beauty, and fcientific information, 
may induce many other attentive obfervers of nature, to 
purfue this pleafing and interefting ftudy. | 
The Author cannot but feel fome degree of fatisfaétion 
in having, at leaft, fulfilled the chief obje& of his firft 
defign; and, after the labour of ten years, completed a . 
Work, perhaps the moft extenfive that may ever appear, 
in this form, on the fubjeG of Britith Entomology ;. but 
this confideration will not permit him to entirely abandon 
his favorite purfuit : his attention will be {till direéted to 
a fcience in which the paft indulgence of a liberal: pub- 
lic 
