Transcriber's note: The copy on which this edition is based was bound with the 3 volumes of text in one physical volume and the plates in another. They have been reordered into 3 separate projects with the plates inserted adjacent to the related text - other copies are known to have been bound in this fashion. Page numbers enclosed by curly braces (example: {25}) have been incorporated to facilitate the use of the Index (in Volume III.). Images of the original plates are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/illustrationsofe12drur Project Gutenberg has the other two volumes of this work. Volume II: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47600. Volume III: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47601. * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS OF EXOTIC ENTOMOLOGY, CONTAINING UPWARDS OF SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF FOREIGN INSECTS, INTERSPERSED WITH REMARKS AND REFLECTIONS ON THEIR NATURE AND PROPERTIES. BY DRU DRURY. ---- A NEW EDITION, BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THE SCIENCE, WITH THE SYSTEMATIC CHARACTERS OF EACH SPECIES, SYNONYMS, INDEXES, AND OTHER ADDITIONAL MATTER. BY J. O. WESTWOOD, F.L.S. SOC. CÆS. NAT. CUR. MOSQ. SOC. ETC. ETC. ---- VOL. I. ---- LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, 4, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCXXXVII. {iii}PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. The acknowledged value of the figures contained in Drury's "Illustrations,"[1] the extreme rarity of many of the insects figured therein, which continue up to the present day to be unique, and the scarcity of the work itself, which appears almost unknown to Continental Entomologists, having induced the proprietor of the plates to republish the work, I have consented to undertake the charge of bringing it forth in a form more adapted to the present greatly advanced state of Entomology. How far I have succeeded must be left for the candid Entomologist to decide. It is fit however that, by way of bespeaking indulgence for the numerous errors into which I fear that I have, notwithstanding all my care, fallen, I should mention the obstacles which have operated against my giving the work that perfect style which I could have wished it to possess. Of these the chief difficulty has arisen from the non-possession of the specimens which served for the original illustrations, without which it may be readily conceived that it has been impossible to ascertain with precision many of the more minute characters, of which the present state of the science requires the investigation; thus in many cases I have been obliged to remain in ignorance of the particular structure of the antennæ, trophi and legs, and the disposition of the veins of the wings, in many of the smaller species of Lepidoptera, so that the precise genera may not in some instances be correctly stated; and to many I have been compelled to attach marks of interrogation for the like reason. Another and equally strong