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BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



inclosed butterfly shuts his wings, as he usually does 

 when the net wraps round him. 



Now take one of your thin pins, and pass it through 

 the thorax of the butterfly, while open or shut, and put 

 it into the corked lining of your pocket-box. So secured, 

 the butterfly will travel uninjured till you reach home ; 

 but a heap of dead butterflies in a box together will, in 

 the course of a long walk, so jostle together, as to 

 entirely destroy each other's beauty, rubbing off all 

 their painted scales, when, of course, they are as butter- 

 flies no longer. 



When you get home, take out all the pins, excepting 

 such as may be stuck perpendicularly through the 

 middle of the thorax, and as soon as possible proceed tc 

 " set " your captures. 



Preparatory to this, some articles called setting-boards 

 must be provided. A section of one of these is shown 

 in the accompanying cut ; but in reality they are made 



much longer, so as to accommodate a column of half-*- 

 dozen butterflies or more : the breadth may vary, ao 



