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is not desirable to put too many insects into one box, espe- 

 cially Lepidopterons. Mr. Greene is quite right about eggs 

 being deposited after insects have been stupified ; I have 

 repeatedly found this to be the case. — Henry Reeks ; Manor 

 House, Thruxton, Hants, February 2, 1865. 



107. Pill-box versus Laurel-box. — Although hitherto an 

 adherent to the pill-box plan, and still feehng that it has 

 many advantages, I own that, in theory, laurel-box seems to 

 me to have the best of the argument ; yet there is one prac- 

 tical objection which I have not seen urged against it, viz., 

 its extreme cumbrousness, for its warmest adherents will 

 allow that you cannot leave more than (at most) half-a-dozen 

 moths, dead and dying, in one box at one time ; hence it 

 will follow that, when sugaring, you must be supplied with 

 two or three of these laurel-boxes, besides a good-sized col- 

 lecting-box, which together will, I contend, far exceed in 

 weight and cumbrousness a bag containing some sixty to a 

 hundred pill-boxes; for the "pill-boxer" has no need of a 

 collecting-box at sugar. This, I think, is a serious considera- 

 tion. Moreover, I do not see that the "laurel-boxer" is 

 much less likely to decapitate or otherwise injure his moths 

 in boxing them than the pill-boxer. Wherever a lid of 

 limited size, with a sharp edge, has to fall, or be closed 

 speedily, this danger will always await the nervous or inex- 

 pert. With respect to a remark of Mr. Todd's about the ex- 

 pense of chloroform, and the consequent desirability of avoiding 

 waste, I think he and other adherents of chloroform for killing 

 may be glad to have a description of a bottle for carrying 

 about chloroform and administering it to moths in the net, 

 pill-box or elsewhere, which I have used now for seven or 

 eight years, and have proved to be most useful, and econo- 

 mical of that volatile fluid. It was invented by my friend 

 Dr. Madden, late of Brighton, now in Australia, and exe- 

 cuted by Charles Green, a gasfitter, in Western Road, 

 Brighton. It is a smooth, cylindrical, brass bottle ; external 

 diameter three-fourths of an inch ; height three-and-a-half 

 inches ; closed with a screw top, also of brass ; lined with 

 cork or India rubber : within this outer cap or top is a 

 second screw-cap, tapering slightly upwards, and pierced 

 with the very finest hole through which fluid can pass, the 

 upper or outside aperture being almost invisible, whilst inside 



