[19] Annulosa Javanica, preface, p. xi.
[20] The learned authors of the Introduction to Entomology have inserted a sketch of the Aristotelian system in that work, a reference to which will convince the reader that it is next to impossible for the entomologist to over-rate him. See Introduction to Entomology, Vol. IV. p. 433.
[21] Introduction to Entomology, Vol. III. pp. 1-51.
[22] And, be it observed, Haustellata merely means not mandibulate; it does not propose to assert that the contents of the tribe so named need have a particular kind of haustellate mouth, or any mouth at all.
[23] Mr. MacLeay has written a little pamphlet on the impropriety of the dichotomous system, which I recollect reading, when published, with considerable pleasure. I forget its title.
[24] If the reader happen to be unacquainted with the terms which I have used in characterizing the mouth, he will find them accurately and elaborately described in Ind. to Ent. Vol. III. p. 393, et seq. The orders of Fabricius depend entirely on the formation of the mouth. See Systema Entomologiæ.
[25] Horæ Entomologicæ, p. 367.
[26] Horæ Entomologicæ, p. 518.
[27] See the Table.
[28] In Cloëon.