APHOKISM.VTA ENTOMOLOGICA. 



It will bo found also most useful ia thus restoring beetles, and has a 

 relaxing effect at the same time upon the antennae and legs of the 

 smaller ones, so that their setting can be easily improved if necessary. 



If the cabinet can only be kept against an outside wall, let it, if 

 possible, be a wall with a south aspect. 



In placing the insects in rows in the cabinet, draw double lines 

 between each row; it has a much better effect. Use great neatness 

 in drawing the lines, which should be made with a hard and very 

 fine-pointed pencil. Put the insects very straight in each row, or the 

 collection will never look well. Leave space, in all cases where you 

 have not already got a series, for four specimens. Of those species 

 which are liable to vary much, a whole row should be kept. 



Thus much then as to the cabinet, of which an engraving will be 

 given, together with a series of representations of all the apjjaratus 

 required for the entomological hunter. 



"PUACTICE MAKES PKKFECT." 



It would at fii\st sight almost sccui like "putting the cart before the 

 horse," to give, as I have done, instructions respecting the cabinet, 

 before I have said a word as to the mode of capturing the insects which 

 arc desired to be placed in it. Such, however, is by no means the case: 

 there is no doubt whatever as to the capture of a vast variety of species, 

 but if there is not provided, beforehand, a suitable receptacle for them, 

 they will in all probability be wasted; and it would have been far 

 better in that case never to have captui'cd them at all, but that they 

 should have been left flitting along the side of the hedge, or over the 

 open meadow, or in the paths and rides in the woods. 



Now, therefore, as to the 'modus operandi.' A vast variety of different 

 kinds of nets have been invented and described, but depend upon it, 

 that there is none better than, or so good as the common one, of which 

 an engraving will accompany these remarks. It is made to take to 

 pieces, and put up in the pocket of your coat. Those who in their 

 younger days have known the kind of engine that is used when you go 

 out on a dark winter night, with a large '"^bat-fowling net" in their 

 hand, and a lantern with the means for lighting it in their pocket, will 

 understand at a glance the whole art. ]More need not be said by 

 way of dcSv^ripiion; the figure will explain itself to every one that is 



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