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When examining trunks of trees and projec- 

 tions of pales and walls, chrysalides will occa- 

 sionally be found attached ; these must be re- 

 moved with great care, and placed in an open 

 box in a dry breeding cage, and left uncovered. 



The Winter moths, although numerous, are 

 generally rare in cabinets, which is to be attri- 

 buted to the little search that is made for them. 

 An assiduous collector would, there is no doubt, 

 make some new and interesting discoveries at 

 this season of the year. 



The dung of horses, cows, deer, and sheep, 

 is very productive of beetles, and should be 

 searched throughout the year, and the gruhs or 

 maggots, which inhabit dung, carefully re- 

 moved into a jar kept for the purpose. The 

 grub of the bot-fy (G aster ophilus Equ'iJ will, 

 with others, be occasionally found in horse 

 dung j and many beetles, flies, &:c. may be reared 

 by this plan, as well at this, as at other sea- 

 sons of the vear. 



