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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 247
the bombyx, or filk-worm, and others, are infeds for the utility
of which we are indebted to the obfervations of true entomo-
logitts.
There is ftill a wide field open for difcoveries of the like nature.
If, for inftance, it were afcertained which caterpillars are moft
injurious to the vegetation of young trees, our endeavours to de-
ftroy them might be directed accordingly. Several are pernicious
to the grain; thefe alfo might be pointed out and fuccefsfully
fubdued. On the other hand, the entomologift might fhow new
advantages to be derived from fome infects that are as yet un-
known. The fermes, blatta, dermeftes, tinez, may perhaps at fome
future period be looked upon with lefs apprehenfion and. diflike
than thofe infects which are now efteemed perfe€tly innocent ;
and the hufbandman, by the exertions of the entomologift, be
freed from the fear of feeing the fields that he cultivates with the
fweat of his brow, changed into barren and unfruitful ground.
The new fpecies of infects which have been found in Lap-
land, offer as yet no ftriking difcoveries of practical benefit. The
firft ftep always muft be to know a thing before we can invefti-
gate its ufe, and in this we are greatly affifted by a {cientific
method and claffification. Travellers have hitherto only been
able to fearch for and gather materials; they have made collec-
tions, and given lifts and defcriptions: of this kind will alfo be
found to be that which is prefented fo the reader in this work.
To render it more interefting, the figures are added of fuch in-
fets as have not yet obtained a place in-any collection of prints. I
fhall
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