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The other bottles and the boxes you can easily procure 

 without cost. 



The boxes are used to place insects in that it is desirable 

 to keep separate from the others. 



In collecting, sweep the fields with the net, and use it 

 also for butterflies, and other insects on the wing. Many 

 specimens lurk under stones and boards, and under the 

 loose bark of trees and stumps. In the latter places many 

 insects are found in winter, so that the collector need not 

 cease his work at any period of the year. 



At night many fine butterflies and moths may be ob- 

 tained near electric lights, gas lamps, etc., and one method 



Fig. 69. 



resorted to is to smear a mixture of sour beer and molasses 

 on the trunks of trees, and then go to these with a dark 

 lantern, or a light hidden by wrapping a towel around it. 

 When the place is reached, the lantern should be unveiled 

 and the insects quickly collected. 



After putting your Lepidoptera, (butterflies and moths), 

 into the cyanide jar, do not put any beetles in with them, 

 as the little feathers from the wings of the butterflies will 

 injure your other specimens. As soon as dead, the butter- 

 flies and moths should be taken out of the bottle and 

 wrapped in little triangles made by taking a square piece 

 of paper and folding it along one of its diagonals. The 



