In his preface to early editions of this book, the late Dr. A. D.
Imms said that he intended it to be an elementary account of
entomology as a branch of general biology. He had especially in
mind the needs of university students of zoology and agriculture,
as well as those intending later to specialize in entomology, and
he suggested that the book might also interest teachers of advanced
biology'in schools. These general aims and the balance between the
different aspects of the subject have changed little in this and in
our previous revision. We have, however, tried to bring the present
edition up to date on the lines of our revised tenth edition of
Imms' General Textbook of Entomology, published in 1977. The text
has been entirely re-set and eleven illustrations have been
replaced by new figures. The same orders . of insects are
recognized as in the last edition, but the sequence in which the
Endopterygote groups appear has been changed to reflect more
accurately their probable evolutionary relationships. Many small
changes and some addi tions have been made in the physiological
sections, the chapter on the origin and phylogeny of insects has
been rewritten, and a new bibliography provides a selection of
modern references for the in tending specialist. It has been our
object to make these alterations without materially increasing the
length of the book or its level of difficulty."
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