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white papoi'; giving liberty to any specimens you do not want, and 



tlirowing away the moss again, with the like intent towards any that 

 it may yet contain. 



•THE PEOCREANT CRADLE. 



I REcoMMEN'D a large square or oblong case, a foot, or a foot and 

 a half in diameter, more or less as the case may be, and proportionately 

 deep, for keeping the chrysalides in, which, during the summer, autumn, 

 or winter, you may have collected together. The case should be made 

 of fine wire netting, so that you can see into it, and discover anything 

 that may have come out; and at the same time of close texture, so 

 that it may not come out, in a diiferent sense of the words. 



The object of its being thus large is, that during any interval of time 

 which may elapse, the insects may not damage themselves, as they might 

 do in a more confined space. I also recommend a little moist sugar 

 being kept in the case, on which, if they choose, they may feed. 



"OMNirM GATHERCJI." 



Whex you have several thoughts in your head at one and the same 

 moment, it is somewhat difficult to retain them all sufficiently long to 

 commit them to paper — a few "random recollections" therefore I now 

 proceed to indite. 



The pieces of wood for the extending boards should be of an uniform 

 shape, in having the curved part tapering for the same length — the 

 intermediate part between it and the centre being flat, or nearly so. 

 They may then be all of exactly the same height, and the corners all 

 squared off" to exactly the same depth. 



The following sizes ai'e those I have, on mature deliberation, deter- 

 mined on as the best for myself, and therefore for all other entomologists: 

 — Five inches and a half, five inches, four and a half and four, three and 

 a half and three, two and a half and two, one and a half and onej and, 

 observe, these measurements are from the top of the side cut off" to its 

 opposite, that is to say, the clear part on which the wings can be 

 extended. 



The groove in each of these pieces of wood should be proportionate 

 to the size of the bodies of the insects, for setting which each size of 

 wood is intended; namely, the smallest-sized piece of wood should have 



