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or other Sticks, five feet long each, the upper part whereof should 

 be bent circular to fit your net." Having netted your insect, you 

 kill it by squeezing, " pin it with that side uppermost which is 

 most beautiful ; then stick in your box, and look out for more Sport." 

 Setting is done leisurely with card braces, the wing being raised 

 even with the nose of the fly ; and small moths and such as stifi'en 

 quickly must be set on small boards, while in the fields caterpillars 

 and moths are to be got by beating, and Aurelias by digging. 



So much for the earlier part of the work. The classification 

 is entirely by caterpillars, depending on their nakedness, hairiness, 

 protuberances, and tufts ; with the result that the Angle Shades, 

 Black Thorn Moth, Small Elephant, and Sword Grass, with 

 several Micros, come all under one heading ; the Admirable and 

 several Fritiliaries under another ; the Blue Argus and Purple 

 Emperor under another ; while the generation of the Glory of 

 Kent and the Cleifden Nonpareil is unknown. 



The plates are excellent, displaying the insect in several 

 positions, with the larva, pupa, and often the ova. 



Two captures of the Willow Butterfly near Camberwell are 

 recorded in August, 1748. Sphinx convolvuli, said to feed in the 

 larva state on the bindweed among the corn. Lasiocampa pini, 

 taken by the author himself in the larva state once on whitethorn 

 bush near Richmond Park in the middle of September, 1748. The 

 Noctua delphinii is beautifully figured in all its stages along with 

 its food-plant, the wild larkspur ; and it is said "to have been bred 

 in England by the Honourable Mrs. Walters and by Nathaniel 

 Oldham, Esq., but that it is very rare." The Swallow-tail Butterfly 

 seems to have occurred commonly about Cookham, near Westram, 

 in Kent, and, as above mentioned, to have been double-brooded. 



A few of the plates I fail to recognise, but the majority are, 

 for the time of publication, wonderfully accurate ; and the flower 

 part, which the author apologises for in the Preface, is admirably 

 executed. 



Altogether, the book, with its quaint hints as to methods and 

 implements, reminds one of the old days of walking up your birds 

 with a pointer and shooting a dozen brace on a good da3\ But I 

 have already said much more about it, drawn on by the charm of 

 its antiquity and the quaintness of its expressions, than I originally 

 intended, and must conclude with the wish that more of your 

 readers could see it for themselves. Q, jVJ. ^, Hewett. 



