222 INSTRUMENTS USED IN COLLECTING, &C. 



place it in the breeding cage, near the fire, by whi 

 means the fluids of the body are preserved, and j 

 case is not too strong for the perfect insect to pe 

 trate. He also says, that if they be placed in 

 bark stove with plants, and covered with the eartl 

 they will not perish, as is the case with those gem 

 rally exposed to the temperature of our climate." 



* Field Naturalist's Magazine, vol. i. p. 48. 



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