HOW TO CATCH A BUTTERFLY. 



CHAPTER IV. 



BUTTERFLIES IN THE CABINET — HOW TO CATCH THEM — APPARATUS 

 — GOING OUT — WEATHER — LOCALITIES — LOCAL BUTTERFLIES 

 — INCOGNITOS— FIELD WORK — FAVOURITE STATIONS— BEWARE 

 OF THE BRAMBLE. 



The mention of butterflies " in the cabinet " leads at 

 once to the question, how to get them there ; or, in 

 other words, How to catch a Butterfly. 



This is a question often less difficult to answer in 

 words than in action, for many of our butterflies are 

 gifted not only with strong prejudices against the inside 

 of a net, but with very strong powers of escaping from 

 that unpleasant situation. Still, by aid of proper ap- 

 paratus, a sure eye and hand, and often, of a good pair 

 of legs, there is no butterfly, however fleet and wary, 

 ohat we may not feel ourselves a tolerable match for. 



Firstly, then, as to the out-door apparatus required. 



This is simple enough, a net and pocket-boxes, with a 

 few pins, being the only essentials. 1 



(1) As beginners in entomology arc, I know, ofien glad to be informed 

 of some reiable dealer from whom to procure the apparatus required for 

 the pursuit, I have pleasure in here giving the name of Mr. T. Cooke, 

 ot oO, Museum Street (six doors from the British Museum), where all the 

 apparatus mentioned in this work, and numerous other natural history- 

 articles, are to be found, good and cheap, I believe. For the guidance of 

 young amatei'xs, I will mention the prices of a tew of ihe more neces-an 



