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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



A SETTING-BLOCK FOR LEPIDOPTERA. 



By HERMANN SCHWARZ, St. Louis, Mo. 



Being aware of the difficulty which presents itself to almost 

 every collector of Lepidoptera in finding a suitable block or board 

 on which to spread his specimens, I herewith take pleasure in 



presenting a sketch of a block which I have found to answer the 

 purpose to perfection. 



Fig. I shows a cross -section and top of the block. As will 



