YOUNG ENTOMOLOGISTS. 15 



office, as without the precaution the first stamp it received 

 would probably dislodge several bodies, which would then 

 amuse themselves with knocking off the legs and antennae 

 during the remainder of the journey. Sometimes, with all 

 our care the box arrives at its destination squashed, and then 

 it affords a capital opportunity of testing the serenity of our 

 correspondent's temper, and his equanimity under trying 

 circumstances, and if he writes a very fierce remonstrant 

 letter the answer naturally suggests itself, 



" Absurde facis, qui angas te animi." 



