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and the net frames of the folding and umbrella patterns, will be best 

 obtained from some dealer in such things. 



" To pack Micro-lepidoptera for travelling, pin them firmly close to- 

 gether into a cork-lined box, so that each specimen just gently holds 

 down the body of the one above it. This cannot be done with very 

 minute species. Put your box into another larger box, and let the 

 outer one be sufficiently large to leave a good clear six inches all 

 around the inner one. Pack this intervening space with hay, not 

 crammed too tight ; it will act as a spring and reduce the effect of 

 shaking; the whole parcel should be made thoroughly secure against 

 damp." 



In collecting Tortricids, Prof. C. H. Fernald, the best au- 

 thority on this family, does not use the cyanide bottle, as a 

 roll over the bottom destroys the thoracic tufts, etc., but he 

 puts the moths alive into pill-boxes. They can then be 

 taken home and killed in the cyanide bottle or with chloro- 

 form. In pinning, the moth should not be touched with 

 the thumb and finger, but should be handled with a pair of 

 fine forceps, laid upon a piece of pith held between the 

 thumb and finger, and the pin passed through the thorax 

 so as not to injure the thoracic tuft. He prefers for the 

 larger species japanned pins, and for the smaller ones silver 

 wire, inserted in one end of a neatly-cut piece of fungus, 

 through the other end of which a large pin may be thrust. 

 (Can. Ent. x. 82.) 



The following excellent directions for rearing the larvae 

 of Tortricidae, by Charles G. Barrett, are copied from the 

 "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine/' Jan., 1883: 



" There is no great difficulty in rearing the leaf -rolling species of the 

 genera Tortrix, Lozoteenia, and part of Pcecilochroma (of Wilkinson's 

 ' Tortrices ' and Stainton's ' Manual '), nor those which draw together 

 leaves either flatly or by folding or spinning several together, such as 

 Peronea and its allies, Phtoodes, Pcedisca, Coccyx, etc., because they 

 mostly feed on the comparatively dry and firm leaves of trees or bushes, 

 and are in consequence but little subject to the annoyance of mouldy 

 food. All that is necessary is to put the rolled, twisted, or joined 

 leaves containing the larvae into large tins or gallipots, closely tied 

 down and covered with glass, and to open them daily for ventilation, 

 supplying fresh food when necessary. Particular care, however, must 



