174 "SETTING" MOTHS. 



number of triangular slips of card about an inch 

 in length, and a quarter of an inch across at 

 the base. Also, push the eye portion of a fine 

 needle into a slight wooden handle a common 

 lucifer match will do very well. 



Have the cards ready and a store of pins, some 

 of the ordinary kind, and some which are very 

 fine and made expressly for the purpose. These 

 pins can be obtained at any of the dealers in 

 objects of natural history, and it is as well to 

 have also a pair of small long-nosed pliers. 



Pass the fine pin through the centre of the 

 Moth's thorax, and then fix it in the setting- 

 board, the body of the Moth lying in the 

 groove between the corks. "With the inverted 

 needle draw the wings into their proper attitude, 

 as seen in the illustration, and then fix them by 

 laying on them one of the slips of card, through 

 the base of which a pin is then run into the 

 cork. The antennae must also be arranged and 

 fixed with pins, and the insect left until it is 

 quite dry. 



As to preservation against the dreadful mite, 

 whose ravages will in a season destroy the 

 labour of years, I have found that the compara- 

 tively slow process of immersing the insect in 

 poison is the most effectual preservation. Make 



