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ago. I am only nineteen years old and began entomological 

 work July 15tli, 1912, l)ut in eleven weeks last year I canglit, 

 bred and sold to Dr. William Barnes of Decatur, Illinois, eleven 

 thousand five hundred specimens. 



All the moths and about one-half of the species of butterflies 

 will oviposit in boxes and bags and many kinds do not even 

 require food. If the imprisoned female demands food, place 

 daily in her prison house a bit of dried apple soaked in water 

 sweetened with honey. With the varieties mentioned there is 

 no other work or worry. Larvae and pupaj resulting from the 

 eggs thus obtained will l)e safe from the ravages of parasites, 

 and the method of rearing them is fully described in the books. 

 What the l)ooks do not tell is that with these varieties there is 

 uo trouble in getting eggs. The entire story may be told thus: 

 Put your unsalable females in paper boxes and bags and feed 

 them if necessary. 



About half the species of butterflies require the presence of 

 the living plant upon which their larvae feed else they will die 

 without laying eggs. W. H. Edwards confined them in nail 

 kegs covered with gauze and placed over the plant. Ordinary 

 l)aper bags tied over sprays of the living plant are less cum- 

 bersome and fully as satisfactory. It is necessary, however, to 

 know the foodplant. I have printed charts of all the known 

 foodplants of butterflies and moths, and will send them postage 

 paid to any person interested, upon application. I want addi- 

 tions and corrections for future, perfected charts. It is my 

 aim to sometime produce perfect lists of foodplants for all 

 Lepidoptera and I shall certainly fail if collectors and scien- 

 tists do not assist me. 



If you do not know the foodplant of the larvae which hatch 

 from the eggs of a given female, you at least know it grows in 

 the locality where you found the female. If you discover the 

 foodplant you have added an atom to scientific knowledge. 

 Place on the tin lid of an inverted jelly glass the newly hatched 

 larvae and narrow slices of twenty different leaves. If they eat 

 any given leaf you have found a foodplant which will answer 

 temporarily, but it is well to introduce another and another 



