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  Cyphocrania Goliath (reduced).      [_Frontispiece._]




                        THE YOUNG COLLECTOR'S

                               HANDBOOK

                                  OF

                  Ants, Bees, Dragon Flies, Earwigs,
                          Crickets, and Flies

              (_HYMENOPTERA_, _NEUROPTERA_, _ORTHOPTERA_,
                       _HEMIPTERA_, _DIPTERA_).


                                  BY

                           W. HARCOURT BATH.


                       [Illustration: colophon]

                            SECOND EDITION.


                                LONDON:
                       SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.,
                          PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

                                 1890.




Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.




PREFACE.


Most boys have a fondness for forming collections of various objects,
such as Foreign Stamps, Crests, and Coins; but very few comparatively
collect Natural Objects. Now it will be admitted by all that the
collecting of Natural Objects, such as Insects, Shells, Plants,
Fossils, Minerals, etc., possesses immense advantages over that of
Foreign Stamps and the like; for the former, besides satisfying the
collecting ambitions, also cultivates the observant and intellectual
faculties, while at the same time affording healthful recreation in the
fields and woods.

Again, a mere collector's province may be exhausted in a few years,
whereas the study and observation of Natural History, which are
the usual "fruits" of collecting Natural Objects, are practically
inexhaustible.

Another great advantage which Natural History possesses,