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Excerpt from Insect Life "Insect Life" breaks new ground. It is an attempt to provide a textbook of Entomology, useful alike to the serious student and to the reader who takes up the subject as a hobby. As far as possible technicalities have been avoided, but the probable utility of the book to teachers has not allowed of them being altogether eliminated. The more important species of a very large number of families have been dealt with; it is clearly impossible, however, in a book of but three hundred odd pages, to cover the vast field of present-day Entomology. To my publishers I am indebted for many kindnesses in the production of the book. To Messrs. Jansen I express my appreciation for the loan of many specimens illustrated in "Insect Life." 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.