Illustrations on natural history. Wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects, according to their different genera; very few of which have hitherto been figured by any author, being engraved and coloured from nature, with the greatest accuracy, and under the author's own inspection, on fifty copper-plates. With a particular description of each insect : interspersed with remarks and reflections on the nature and properties of many of them. By D. Drury. To which is added a translation into French
A selection of unusual, and mainly previously unrecorded insects,
giving details of size, shape, pattern and colouration, with
accompanying illustrations; also details of the country of origin,
month of capture, aspects of behaviour, and names of donors of
specimens; with an introduction on the benefits of insects
