REAMING : 



with ;i thick layer of moss prepared in the same manner as 

 thai beneath. The box rered bj kept in 



place l>\ projections from tin During the winter the 



pan of water ma\ be ilispen th, and 1 1 1 * - box put into 



lar-room with the window partly open, so that the fresh 

 moist air may penetrate, or in a cool attic; <>r. better, placed 

 in Buch a situation outside of the house thai the box will 

 not receive injury, while the pupae will be kept cool and n«>t 

 too damp. \\ e have found that such a box, with water in 

 course of evaporation under it. is by far the best place to 

 keep pupae both in summer and winter. 



When the unit lis emerge, they arc transferred by Mr. 

 Elliott to another box (or rather a series of them, for keep- 

 ing uumeroue specimens at the same time), with a glass 

 top, and a stick introduced on which the moth may hang 

 suspended by its feel until the wings arc fully expanded 

 and the body sufficiently dried; they arc then transferred 

 to the poisoning-box, and the insect i- finally set, before a 

 wing has fluttered. 



Pairing or Mating Lepidoptera in Captivity. — " It i- 

 common enough," says Mr. W. II. Edwards, "for certain 

 Sphinges and Bombycidae to mate in boxes and immediate- 

 ly after leaving the pupae. This may happen when the 

 arc mature at the birth of the insect. Willi many 

 specie- of butterflies the eggs do not mature for Bevi 

 days after leaving the chrysalis, as is the case with the 

 large Argynnids; but with others, as PI 'en t 

 7iyclei», and myrina, they are mature from the start. I 

 have nol experimented in this direction, but from what 

 Miss E. I.. Morton, of Newburgh, N. Y.. tells me, it may 

 be possible to induce butterflies i 



and so to obtain . Eor the - arc laid \ >rtly 



after copulation, as I have several times M ss 



Morton had by mistake placed a male S under 



a bag of netting on grass. Three days lal ?he introduced 

 a female which up to that time was - be the 



nd female. Almost immediately the pair mated, and 



