LETTER III.

FELICT.A TO CONST4NCE.

Shrubbery

DEAR CONSTANCE,

AS insects are endowed with the various powers of creeping, flying, and swim wing, there is scarcely any place whrc they are not to be found :.--earlh, air, water, and the bodies of the larger animals, teem with theme Until a regular system was invented, their numbers and minuteness presented such inextricable confusjon, as to discourage coy mon industry from the pursuit. The difference of their outward appearance first reduced them into certain divisions, or classes : thus, the early entomologists grouped them into the obvious families of beetles, butterflies, and flies; whilst those of the same class that had four wings, they called bees. No advance was made beyond these general terms, till the immortal Linna3us undertook to reduce the science to a systematic form. He was the man who first instituted natural orders, arranged them iii genera by expressive names, and determined a

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