ON COLLECTING AND PACKING 
EXOTIC INSECTS. 
^Although the foregoing instructions are more 
particularly adapted to collecting insects in 
England, yet they will, in a great degree, apply 
to the same operation abroad. The few ex- 
ceptions may be pointed out. Insects being 
generally of a greater size, and much more 
abundant than in England, the collector must 
be prepared accordingly. His nets must be 
larger and longer, his boxes larger and more 
numerous, his pi/zs longer and his stock greater, 
and the rest of his apparatus must be in pro- 
portion, adding knives, scissors, cards for 
braces, cotton for packing, &c. &c. He must 
be prepared, also, against the attacks of various 
enemies, such as white ants, cockroaches, &c. 
and lay in a stock of preservatives, guch as 
camphor and spirits of turpentine. He will 
