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pin. Any insect that is too small for a No. 2 Klaeger pin should be 

 mounted on card-board; in other words, never use a finer pin than a No. 

 2 in any of the orders. In spreading Lepidoptera be careful to have the 

 inferior margins of the superior wings make a straight line. Let us 

 inaugurate an era of well-caught and nicely-mounted specimens. It is 

 almost as easy to do the thing right as wrong, and the NEWS hopes to live 

 to see the time when entomological rubbish will be a thing of the shadowy 

 past. ED. 



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INCIDENTS OF WORK. In the fall of 1890 I visited a country place in 

 the southern part of the State for the purpose of investigating the habits 

 of the screw worm (Coinpsomyia macellaria). Desiring to watch the work 

 of the species without interruption, I secured a nearly dead sheep in the 

 shade of a tree about fifty yards back from the public road and sat myself 

 down beside the sheep to watch the larvce in their work. Occasionally 

 flies were caught in the hand and put in the cyanide bottle, or when a full 

 grown larva dropped from the wounds for pupation it was put into earth 

 in a bottle brought for that purpose. Thus a full half day was spent 

 beside the sheep. But my doings had not been unobserved, as passers by 

 had watched with amazement a stranger in their midst catching flies from 

 a nearly dead sheep, and it was soon known in the little hamlet that the 

 bug man who had arrived the night before was catching flies to eat. Im- 

 agine my surprise after reaching my hotel to be surrounded by a group 

 of listeners who asked if the flies were really good to eat? how long had 

 I lived oil such truck ? and if the flies were eaten to cure any disease, etc.? 

 My explanations, however, were satisfactory to most of those present, 

 although when I explained that the parents of the screw-worms were 

 small flies and exhibited specimens, several knew as well as they knew 

 anything that I was mistaken, as a prominent physician of the town had 

 shown that the parent of the screw-worm was a species of wasp. The 



