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placed with the perfect insects, and so enhance the interest 
of their collections, would doubtless be a boon to many a 
tyro-lepidopterist ; and in the hope that, now the season has 
fairly set in, some may be induced to experiment upon the 
commoner species, these few notes are offered. 
Fig. 1. 
Fig. 2. 
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Fig. 1. Blowpipe; the left-hand figure having the larve attached. Fig. 2. 
Shows the mode of preserving. For the loan of these two cuts—which 
illustrated my notes on the same subject, in ‘ Science Gossip,’ a few years 
back—I am indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Hardwicke and Bogue, 
the publishers of that journal.-—H. A, A, 
A blowpipe is required ; but as the instrument, constructed 
as it generally is, would be unfit for the work, it is necessary 
to procure some specially made from glass-tubing, the end of 
which is to be melted and drawn out to a fine point. It is, 
perhaps, preferable to make them oneself from tubes of 
