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safe from injury (see sketch 3). Do not place it with body against the fokl 

 (see sketch 4) as in this position the antennge almost always dry sticking out 

 and eventually get broken off in handling the paper or specimen. 



4>» ^Apt^'r triangle. cloSe«i. 



If papered butterflies be massed together in a box any particular speci- 

 men cannot be got at without many being handled, resulting in damage to 

 some sooner or later. 



B. Making Packets for papered specimens. 



The paper triangles should be kept in packets of corresponding standard 

 sizes, so that these packets, fitting closely in an ordinary biscuit-tin, eco- 

 nomise space and enable any one packet to be easily taken out without 

 disturbing its contents. 



The paper triangles should be so placed in a packet that the bodies of 

 the specimens are alternately to left and right and so lie evenly; if not so 

 placed they form a lopsided pile, and space is wasted and pressure is all 

 on one side. 



All packets should be of uniform height, — 1 inch — so forming 2 or 3 tiers 

 in the tin according to the kind of biscuit-tin used ; and each packet 

 should contain just so many specimens as not to be loose in it, and then 

 the vertical sides of the packets take any weight or pressure. 



A medium sized packet has its longest side about 3^ inches ; larger 

 packets can be made double, or smaller ones half the size of this one. 

 Stout paper such as Parchment-note answers best. 



Attached is an outline pattern (reduced half size) for making such a 

 packet (Fig. 1). Cut along the outside continuous lines, and fold backwards 

 at the dotted lines. This pattern may be used for outlining others with a 

 pencil, keeping the centre portion of the pattern fixed with the fingers of 

 the left hand, and turning up each portion after outlining as one works 

 inwards. Paste A to underside of B so that C is between the two ; then 

 paste underside of D on to E with F between them. To close the packet 

 inset the flap between G and H. A number of these outlined and cut out 

 for packets, but not folded, can be kept ready to be made up into papk<'ts 

 as they are wanted. 



