The Capture, Preparation, and Preservation of Specimens 
so that they are not torn, nor are the fringes and other delicate 
portions injured. In doing this work it is best to use a reading- 
glass mounted in a frame, so that the operator can seethe objects 
before him magnified two or three diame¬ 
ters. The mounting of micro - lepidoptera 
taken in the field and put into envelopes, as 
often has to be done, is a very trying opera¬ 
tion. After the insects have been sufficiently 
dried they may be set up as double mounts, 
the small silver pins being thrust through 
pieces of pith held upon a larger pin. The Fig. 18.—Double 
Pyralidce, the Tortricidce and all the smaller mount, 
micro-lepidoptera should, if possible, be collected in the way which 
has just been described, and it is only thus that specimens 
worthy of installation in a well ordered cabinet can be secured. 
Larger forms may be placed in envelopes if intended to be 
transmitted to great distances prior to study. Larvae may be 
inflated in the manner described in “ The Butterfly Book.” In 
all other particulars the directions contained in that volume may 
be safely followed by the student. 
*' As the moths around a taper, 
As the bees around a rose, 
As the gnats around a vapour, 
So the spirits group and close 
Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.” 
E. B. Browning, A Child Asleep. 
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