Excerpt from An Introduction to Entomology<br/><br/>It being judged expedient, since the publication of the last Edition of the first and second Volumes of this Work, to adopt a new plan with respect to the reference letters of the Plates, the Reader ls requested to make the following corrections in those Volumes.
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