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should disturb or destroy the delicate down, 
to which many of them owe their greatest 
beauty. Before he proceeds on his search, he 
will do well to provide himself with a stock of 
pins, with which he is to pierce the insects he 
may catch, and a small box lined with cork, 
or soft wood. With a pair of gauze forceps he 
may catch insects when at rest; butifthey are 
on the wing, and within reach, he must use a 
hand-net, which may be made of any light sub- 
stance, as a piece of gauze about a yard and 
a half square, fastened to two pliable sticks 
or canes, whereby it may be made to open or 
eollapse at pleasure. If they are beyond his 
reach, he must use a casting net, which I have 
tried with considerable success. It may be 
made thus: tie a weight, (a halfpenny, for in- 
stance), in one of the corners of a piece of 
gauze, (about the size of a common handker- 
chief), a sixpence in the second corner, and a 
bit of very light wood in the third: the ine- 
