This is preferable to holding the quills over a 

 candle, as the insects are sooner killed, and their 

 juices are not dried so quickly as to prevent 

 their legs, and antennae from being displayed. 



Having killed the insects, the next step is to 

 preserve them. Beetles should be pierced by a 

 pin of corresponding size, in a perfectly upright 

 position, through the right wing case (Elytron) 

 as shown (plate, fig. 1,) and never through the 

 thorax. The legs and antenna should be displayed 

 in a natural position on the setting -board, and 

 kept so by means of pins, and braces, (as also 

 shewn plate, fig. 1.) where they should remain 

 until they are perfectly dry. Minute beetles and 

 other insects, should be gummed* on small 

 wedges of card or stiff paper, and the wedges 

 stuck with .a pin (plate, fig. 4 and 6.) The 

 gum should be thinly spread, with a camel's 

 hair pencil, and the insect placed upon it, the 

 legs &c. being extended by means of a clean 



* Common gum water will not hold sufficiently strong, 

 isinglass must be mixed with it in a sufficient quuniity to 

 make a strong jelly when cold. It may be warmed when 

 used. 



