The naturalist''''s library V01-1840

THE if'g ILIlllAMY mmTđmđiLâ(BYo Tâa,2 = EDINBURGH W.UXIZARS LONDOS- SAMUEL HIGBLEY 32 FLEET STREET DUBLIS W CCKRY JtJSK^* C? THE NATURALIST'S LIBRARY, CONDUCTED BY SIR WILLIAM JARDINE, Bart F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c &c INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY VOL I BY JAMES DUNCAN, M W S EDINBURGH S : ST JAMES' SQUARE HIGHLEY, 32, FLEET STREET, LONDON; AND W CURRY, JUN AND CO DUBLIN W H LIZARS, 3, 1840 PKINTiiD UY T CONSTABLE, PRiNTSR TO HKR MAJESTY tDl.N'BURGH : INTRODUCTION ENTOMOLOGY COMPREHENDING A GENERAL VIEW OF THE METAMORPHOSES, EXTERNAL STRUCTURE, ANATOMV PHYSIOLOGY, AND SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE CLASS INSECTS ILLUSTRATED BY THIRTY-EIGHT COLOURED PLATES, WITH MEMOIRS OF SWAMMERDAM AND DE GEER BY JAMES DUNCAN, M W S EDINBURGH S : ST JAMES' SQUARE HIGHLEY, 32, FLEET STREET, LONDON; AND W CURRY, J UN AND CO DUBLIN W H LIZARS, o, 1840 ADVERTISEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER The readers of the Naturalist's Library are aware that the various volumes of the series hitherto devoted to Entomology, have heen occupied with the elucida- tion of particular Orders and Families The volume which we have now the pleasure of presenting to their notice, contains a general exposition of all the Orders, the predominance being given to those which were not previously noticed ternal structure, of the Ample details of ex- anatomy and physiology of the class insects, of the modes of systematic ar- rangement, &c have likewise heen given, in order to render entire fore, — it a complete introductory view of the subject Our entomological series, already amounting to six volumes, a pretty full interesting and profusely illustrated — thereaffords view of this department of zoology, one eminently calculated to gratify the laudable curiosity of those X ADVERTISEMENT who seek to discover and admire the good and the beautiful in the Moths and Hawk-moths, —an — department of the subject, new and Our next works of nature to known imperfectly for splendid species are by Mr Westwood, publi- volume on Exotic cation in this branch will be a which drawings of now whose elegant preparation in we have pencil likewise, as will be seen, been largely indebted on the present occasion, in the volume which this ac- companies The next volume of our work, which will form the thirtieth, yn[\ embrace the natural history of a very remarkable group of quadrupeds, and one with which the public are very the Marsupialia, or Waterhouse, Esq Curator illustrated W little acquainted, namely, Pouched Animals, by George to the Zoological Society, with nearly forty Plates from drawings by Dickes, Esq an artist now first employed contribute to the Naturalist's Library to These drawings have been made with great care and high artistical skill, from specimens which are to be found assembled only in the collection of the Zoological Society of London be the first It may be added that attempt which has been a complete history and representation of extraordinary race of animals this will made to give this very ADVERTISEMENT We XI are likewise glad to announce another volume from the pen of an individual who holds such a high name in the scientific world Colonel Hamilton Smith, work devoted The volume alluded the author of the two volumes of our to the history of the dog, &c to will contain the history of the Equid^e, and the own allied species,) the admirable pencil (Horses drawings being from his l.Sire.r (jitjas Tirjnca- cohanha.3 Joppa /nrta IPimpla rnamfestator 2Stephan7is coroiiatus^Feie cuius po/itnrator Sfi/hps Dalii Jenos Fecial PLATE oi '^-Tf^ l.Ctcnojihora pe^tinicornis Tabarms tropicus 5.Dwpsis Idin^unwnia J.OWi-sMoodd^Tf Usilits ahdonii/m/u: 2.Aca7ithomern immanis: ... devour them If they fly higher into the air, another kind of torment attends them, for then they are persecuted with a different barbarity, by other kinds of birds, which tear their limbs Though these... again to the surface of the water, and carelessly sport and play there with their wings and tails, they a second time become a prey to the fish, which drag them away to the dark bottom of the water,... ADVERTISEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER The readers of the Naturalist''s Library are aware that the various volumes of the series hitherto devoted to Entomology, have heen occupied with the elucida- tion