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Excerpt from Index Entomologicus, or a Complete Illustrated Catalogue, Consisting of Upwards of Two Thousand Accurately Coloured Figures of the Lepidopterous Insects of Great Britain Our object in the present undertaking is to incorporate in one Volume octavo a Catalogue of all the known Insects of the order Lepidoptera inhabiting Great Britain; illustrated throughout with figures, reduced, where necessary, to a small size, but with a degree of accuracy that will enable the Entomologist to fix at once upon any particular species he may wish to define. The utility of such an undertaking, if properly conducted, will be readily acknowledged, as we have no Work that figures even a quarter of the species known at present to inhabit this country. Any book, therefore, must become important to the Entomologist, that will comprise an accurate figure of every species of insect included in the order to which it belongs. It may be objected, that to combine so much in so small a space it may be necessary to reduce the figures till we lose the essential character. This, however, has by no means been the case. None of the insects have been reduced to less than an inch, and some hundreds are of the natural size. 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.