HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS ON NETS, 

 BREEDING-CAGES, Etc. 



As some difficulty is experienced in Teneriffe by 

 persons who arrive there without already being provided 

 with materials for collecting Lepidoptera, the description 

 of a few useful expedients resorted to may be of service. 

 A moderate knowledge of the Spanish language is a very 

 useful help towards obtaining any small necessaries, but 

 the Spanish shop-keepers are most obliging, and under- 

 stand quickly by the help of a very few words what is 

 wanted. 



A butterfly-net is one of the first requisites, so some 

 wire must be bought at the tin-smiths, of whom there 

 are several in Orotava. With a little instruction he 

 will make it into a ring about one foot in diameter, 

 with a socket of tin soldered on to it. Into this socket 

 an ordinary walking-stick can be fixed for a handle. 

 The stick is useful to walk with over the rough ground 



