Excerpt from Biologia Centrali-Americana, Vol. 2: Insecta Of the nineteen uncoloured Plates issued with this Volume, seventeen have been printed by Messrs. Bannwarth, of Vienna, and two by Mr. E. Wilson, Of Cambridge. The original drawings for Plates I. - XV. Were made by the eminent artist Baron Max Schlereth, some Of these being amongst the finest delineations of insects we have as yet seen, though the delicacy of his work has, Of course, been to a certain extent lost in copying on the stone. The drawings for Plates XVI - XIX. Were made by Mr. E. Wilson or Miss M. A. Sharp. It had been intended to give yet another Plate (xx), to be partly devoted to figures of the various species of doubtful position; but as this part Of the work has now been abandoned, the references to Plate XX. In the text Of the Byrrhidee, pp. 677 - 686, must be erased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.