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 I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47599. 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. II. ---- LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, 4, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCXXXVII. {iii}MR. DRURY'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. ---- VOL. II. To gratify a laudable curiosity, and lead the mind to the exercise of one of its noblest faculties, was the motive that first encouraged me to publish a work of this kind. How far it has answered these ends, what pleasure it has produced, of what benefit or advantage it has been to mankind, by inducing them to contemplate the admirable works of Providence, and trace its wisdom and goodness through the medium of this branch of the history of nature, are circumstances, the confined sphere of life in which I have hitherto moved, has not given me those opportunities of knowing that I could wish. But the kind reception the first volume of this work has met with, seems to justify the opinion that it has not been written in vain. In the Preface to my former volume, I told my readers, that my design of giving an addition to that work, would entirely depend on the reception the public should be pleased to give it. I was willing to have some proof of the public approbation, before I ventured rashly to engage further in so considerable an expense as the engraving and colouring the plates, &c. which was too great for me to incur without a prospect of a reimbursement.