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two or three drops of the poison, and then fix tne 

 abdomen in its place with diamond cement. By 

 following this plan the entomologist will not 

 only avoid grease, but will preserve the bodies of 

 his Moths from shrivelling and wrinkling, than 

 which nothing looks worse. 



Should the reader wish to take up the rearing 

 of Moths, he can do so in two modes ; namely, 

 by preserving the chrysalis and rearing the larvae, 

 in many cases doing so from the egg, as with 

 silkworms. 



The best mode of obtaining the chrysalis is 

 to hunt for it in the haunts of the insect, and 

 in all cases the bark of trees and the earth 

 near their roots are tolerably sure localities. 

 Solitary trees, especially the oak, are the best, 

 and in digging up the earth near the foot vast 

 numbers of pupce may be found, the number 

 increasing in precise proportion to the amount 

 of practice. There are few things more deceptive 

 than such localities, for a novice may hunt for 

 an hour and never find a chrysalis, while a prac- 

 tised digger will take the very same soil, and 

 carry off a pocketful of treasure. 



For the following excellent account of breeding 

 the insect from the egg, I am indebted to my 

 friend Albert H. Jones, Esq., of Eltham. 



