Camberwell Beauty Butterfly, with card braces, showing the mode in which a Butterfly 

 should be set. 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF KILLING, SETTING, ARRANGING AND NAMING INSECTS. 



ALTHOUGH the author is fully satisfied that insects have 

 not the acute sense of pain possessed by ourselves and 

 warm-blooded animals, yet he wishes to impress on the 

 collector of insects, that it is unjustifiable to subject any 

 animal to even the possibility of suffering for our own gra- 

 tification. Therefore let us resolve to adhere to two rules ; 

 first, to destroy no more specimens than are really requi- 

 site ; secondly, to kill them in the most certain and expe- 

 ditious manner : under any circumstances, the reflection 

 that we have done this will be agreeable. 



Butterflies and moths require to be pinned immediately 

 on being taken ; the pin is passed through the very centre 



