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wishes, which is unlikely, to secure fresh varieties 

 of this vicious insect, let him kill and set half- 

 a-dozen. In a few weeks his ambitions will be 

 gratified. Bees are not particularly difficult subjects. 

 They may sometimes be caught napping. It is best, 

 however, to take them in a net, and confine them with 

 a suitable arrangement of flowering plants within a 

 glass-sided tank. It may be mentioned that from a 

 natural history point of view the main distinction 



Caterpillar of a Geometer Moth. 



between bees and wasps consists in a wide and 

 flattened first joint of the hind tarsus in the case of the 

 former. In photographing either, therefore, the hind 

 legs should receive special attention. The ants are too 

 small to be treated individually ; an interesting group, 

 however, may be obtained by placing a dead mouse 

 in the vicinity of an ant's nest, and it should be borne 

 in mind that an ant's nest always provides the chance 

 of capturing some of our rarest beetles. 



In the diptera we are again confronted with photo- 

 graphic quantity rather than quality. Daddy-longlegs 



