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hollow tube a, which should be about six inches long." The 

 stick should be about four feet long. Mr. Lintner makes 

 use of a rod with a head [Fig. 8] screwed to one end, in 

 which to fasten an elastic brass ribbon, on which the net is 

 drawn, but which when not in use may be placed inside the 

 hat, while the stick serves as a cane, and the head and bag 

 may be placed in the pocket. An entomologist becomes 

 a less conspicuous personage with such an outfit. 



The *'•' chase '' for butterflies should rarely be a question 

 of speed; caution and stratagem are better arts; a butter- 

 fly should rarely be alarmed, or the game is lost; intent 

 upon a flower, one may even be captured with the fingers 

 by slow approach upon the shady side; many 

 have the habit of returning to a twig they 

 have left, and can be captured by lying in 

 wait near the spot; others will course up 

 and down a roadside, a forest lane, or a 

 hedgerow, and may be easily netted by taking 

 advantage of tiiis habit. Xor should it be 

 forgotten that not a few are very limited 

 indeed in the selection of their haunts, and 

 every kind of spot should be visited; some 

 confine their flight to marshy spots and even 

 to particular bogs; some prefer the open 

 fields; pastures where thistles and other 

 weeds are in flower attract a gi'eat crowd ; others may be 

 found in openings in the forest where the fire-weed conceals 

 the charred timber beneath its panicles of blue flowers : one 

 will not look in vain upon the goldenrods and blossomed 

 vines which fringe the roadside or stone walls; the shrub- 

 berv which loves the marsrin of slender streams or the 

 ed2:e of thickets is a favorite haunt of manv; sheltered 

 valleys with their varying verdure are always a choice re- 

 sort of the entomologist; but even the tops of rugged 

 mountains or sandy wastes given to sorrel and feeble grasses 



Fig. 8 , — Net- 

 head for a remov- 

 able frame. 



