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. 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 II: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47600. * * * * * 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. III. ---- LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, 4, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. MDCCCXXXVII. {iii}MR. DRURY'S PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. ---- VOL. III. Grateful for the favourable reception the two preceding volumes of this work have met from the lovers of Natural History, it is with pleasure that I now present them, though late, with this my third and last volume, which has been completed in opposition to greater disadvantages and disappointments than attended either of the others. It may not be superfluous to inform my readers, that this publication is the result of such leisure hours only as could be spared from an indispensable assiduity to immediate business, and a necessary attention, at that time, to an impaired constitution. This being taken into consideration, little apology will be required for the length of time I have been in bringing it out, by those who know what trouble we must necessarily have with the various artists, who are employed in executing the different parts of such a work, and with what scrupulous exactness and care every minute part ought to be examined and corrected. This unavoidable delay, however, has been productive of another circumstance, which compels me to entreat all their candour and indulgence.