In the present chapter I propose to give a brief sketch of the general principles of Entomology, including a rudimentary glance at the anatomy and classification of insects; after which I think the reader will be in a better position to study the habits and life-histories of the individual species which follow. _An Insect is an articulate animal having the body divided into three distinct divisions_, viz., _the_ HEAD (Fig. I. A), _the_ THORAX (B), _and the_ ABDOMEN (C). _It is furnished with three pairs of legs, and generally has two pairs of wings, and to acquire this structure the creature passes through several changes, termed its metamorphoses._ {2}The head exhibits no distinct division…
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