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Wisxinc to comprife fuch information as may recommend our 
Work, toa general Clafs of Readers, we are abfolutely compelled to 
deviate from that uniform path which we at firft intended to purfue ; 
by introducing the figures of fome Moths before we can procure their 
larva; we promife this will rarely occur, except with Infeé&ts whofe 
larva are unknown ; and the Author will {pare no expence, or trouble, 
to attain even thofe: but, were he to refufe a place to the many valu. 
able fpecimens recently difcovered, it would be very difpleafing to 
the greater part of his Subfcribers ; therefore, as an invariable obfer- 
vance of fuch intention, promifes only to exclude the moft rare of our 
Infe€ts, we cannot always indulge it: on this plan, in the firft Volume 
Wwe could neither have reprefented the Phal. Batis, Peach Bloffam, as 
the larva has only once been found ; or the Phal. Chrifternana, whofe 
larva is unknown*: Thefe are Infeéts which few Cabinets in Engx 
land poffefs; hence the figures muft be very acceptable, and theit 
Tarity a fufficient apology for their premature introduction. 
' * The Caterpillars of a very {mall portion of minute Moths are known: 
and many Species in the adult ftate are fo very rare, as to have efcaped thé 
*ttention of the moft accurate Entymologifts. Of the number which aré 
a{certained as natives, very few are hitherto figured, or even deferibed. 
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