Excerpt from Insects at Home: Being a Popular Account of All Those Insects Which Are Useful or Destructive, and Minutely Describing Their Structure, Habits, and Transformations
As this is not a work on comparative anatomy, but treats of 'Insects at Home,' a greater stress is laid on the habits of the insects than on their anatomy. Still, inasmuch as a general knowledge of the various parts of an insect and of the terms applied to them is absolutely necessary for all who wish to study the subject, however superficially, I have given, together with the different groups of insects, those portions of their structure which serve to distinguish them from their fellows.
Moreover, there will be found prefixed to the description t f the chief groups chart-drawings of their anatomy, so as to enable the reader to recognise the various portions of an insect when he examines it. I am led to do this by the remembrance of the difficulties undergone by myself during my earlier years of entomology. In those days the only works which gave illustrations as well as names were so few, and so costly, that they were positively out of my reach as much as if they had never existed. I have therefore endeavoured in this work to supply that want which I felt so severely, and have so arranged the work that no reader need be puzzled as to the difference between mandible, maxilla, labium, and mentum, as I was in former days.
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