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should disturb or destroy the delicate down, 

 to which many of them owe their greatest 

 beauty. Before he proceeds on his search, he 

 will do well to provide himself with a stock of 

 pins, with which he is to pierce the insects he 

 may catch, and a small box lined with cork, 

 or soft wood. With a pair of gauze forceps he 

 may catch insects when at rest; but if they are 

 on the wing, and within reach, he must use a 

 hand-net, which may be made of any light sub- 

 stance, as a piece of gauze about a yard and 

 a half square, fastened to two pliable sticks 

 or canes, whereby it may be made to open or 

 collapse at pleasure. If they are beyond his 

 reach, he must use a casting net, which I have 

 tried with considerable success. It may be 

 made thus: tie a weight, (a halfpenny, for in- 

 stance), in one of the corners of a piece of 

 gauze, (about the size of a common handker- 

 chief), a sixpence in the second corner, and a 

 bit of very light wood in the third : the ine- 



