Excerpt from The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands: A Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species Indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland, With Notes as to Localities, Habitats, Etc The number of Entomologists who take an interest in the British Hemiptera has considerably increased of late years, although I fear it is an order which must still be looked upon as more or less "neglected." It is hard to see why this should be, as many of our species will compare favourably in beauty and delicacy with those of any other order. This delicacy of course makes their collection rather difficult, as they must not be handled, and their antennae and legs are very liable to get broken; but a very little care will enable the collector to bring back his specimens uninjured, and when once he has got them home and set them, I feel sure he will be amply repaid for his trouble. On the Continent of Europe a large amount of work has been done during the past ten years or so in this order, and the labours of Drs. Puton, Reuter, Horvath and others have cleared up a great deal of the confusion that used to exist in the European list. Dr. Renter's magnificent work, "Hemiptera Gymnocerata Europae," and Dr. Puton's "Synopsis des Hemipteres Heteropteres de France" should be in the hands of all Hemipterists who can afford them. I have borrowed characters frequently from both of these, as well as from Dr. Horvath's numerous papers, Messrs. Douglas and Scott's standard work, "The British Hemiptera," and from the various works of Fieber, Stal, Thomson, Sahlberg, Lethierry, etc. 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."