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Excerpt from Institutions of Entomology: Being a Translation of Linnæus's Ordines Et Genera Insectorum, or Systematic Arrangement of Insects; Collated With the Different Systems of Geoffroy, Schæffer and Scopoli, Together With Observations of the Translator Entertain the highefi deference, hava ing repeatedly requeed me to add an end graving of each Ghus of Infeé'ts to the following Work, I think mylelf under an obligation to inform them of the reafons which prevented my complying with their delire. The extraordinary expencc which Would have attended fuch engravings mu tiecefiarily have enhanced the price of the Work, and defeated its principal de fign, by preventing a number of fuch per fons as have mofi occafion for it from pot chafing it; this expence would have been {0 much the greater, as it would not have fuiced to have figured one infect of each Linnazan Genus, but would have been ab folutely neceftary to have given one, at leafi, of each family or feé'ti'on of foch ge nera as contain infects differing much from one another in their external appearance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.