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placed with the perfect insects, and so enhance tlie interest 

 of their collections, would doubtless be a boon to many a 

 tyro-lepidopterist ; and in the hope that, now the season has 

 fairly set in, some may be induced to experiment upon the 

 commoner species, these few notes are offered. 



Fi-. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 1. Jilowpipe; the left-baud tigiire haviug the larvae attached. Fig. 2. 

 Shows the mode of preserving. For the loan of these two cuts— which 

 illustrated my notes on the same subject, in ' Science Gossip,' a few years 

 back— I am indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Hardwicke and Bogue, 

 the publishers of that journal.- • if. A. A. 



A blowpipe is required; but as the instrument, constructed 

 as it generally is, would be unfit for the work, it is necessary 

 to procure some specially made from glass-tubing, the end of 

 which is to be melted and drawn out to a fine poinl. It is, 

 perhaps, preferable to make them oneself (rom tubes of 



