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23. Braces or Cramps, and Pins (15) bent at their points like bayonets with 

 (24) the Pincers invented by Mr. Waring, of Liverpool, for setting legs of 

 Beetles, &c. 



25. Setting Boards, lined with cork and washed with flake white and isinglass, 

 and some lines ruled at right-angles, so as to set the insect true ; also a line 

 marked into inches and lines, and if a large box were divided, the box or 

 cage containing the setting boards on one side, and the larva cage on the 

 other, with a glass partition ; the other sides covered with wire-gauze, and 

 under this in the travelling box should be 



26. The Travelling Store Box, made to fit the size of the two above boxes. 

 There should be a partition (with a sliding cover) with smaller divisions for 

 pliers, setting-needles, camphor, matches, a wax candle, Jones's Lucifer-box, 

 gum- bottle, &c. Also Tortrix and Tineae pins, the places for them being 

 lined with cork to save their points. Camel's-hair brush, card-paper, &c. 



27. Pocket Magnifier. — May be had of Messrs. Bently and Chant, No. 1, 

 King's-Head-Court, St. Martin's-Le-Grand, opposite the New Post-Office. 

 It is the common pocket magnifying-glass used by botanists. 



28. Pocket collecting Box, should be made or covered with tin, to keep the insects 

 cool, and prevent their drying too fast on a very hot day. It should contain 

 a little camphor and muslin. 



29. Pocket Larva Box. — It is very objectionable except when well lined with 

 paper. A tin box perforated with holes is better upon the whole. 



30. Breeding Cages. — These should have two bottles for the plants to be changed 

 alternately, and for the larvae to crawl to the fresh herbs. The late Captain 

 Blomer suggested (through the Rev. W. Yonge) fresh-cut turf and saw- 

 dust for the bottom of the cages. They should be kept in a cool moist 

 place, as in a cellar or out- house, during the winter. The bottom to be 

 covered with fine mould, sand, and rotten wood from old Pollard trees, to 

 the depth of several inches, and kept moist. Such Moths as are inclosed in 

 a hard case or shell, as the Puss, Goat Moth, &c, should be carefully freed 

 from it, as the aperture which the insect naturally makes is so small as not 

 to permit it to pass without injury. The late Rev. T. Skrimshire, for the 

 purpose of rearing insects from the egg to the perfect state, had procured a 

 number of tin boxes, about two inches square, two sides of which, and also 

 the top and bottom, are of tin perforated with small holes ; the remaining 

 two are glazed ; and one of the tin sides constitutes a door which slides in 

 a groove. Twelve of these are placed in a wooden trough, partitioned off 

 for each box about a quarter of an inch deep, and made perfectly water- 

 tight. Only one caterpillar, or a brood, is placed in each of these boxes, 



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