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iioned, a species of Oidium. Such patients should be put in 

 direct sunlight or dry currents of air. (Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine, June, 1868.) The pupae easily dry up ; they should 

 be kept moist, in tubes of glass closed at either end, through 

 which the moth can be seen when disclosed. 



In setting micro- lep idoptera : "If the insect is very small I 

 hold it by its legs between the thumb and finger of the left 

 hand, whilst I pierce it with the pin held between the thumb 

 and finger of the right hand ; if the insect is not very small I 

 use a rough surface, as a piece of blotting-paper, or piece of 

 cloth, for it to lie upon and prevent its slipping about, and 

 then cautiously insert the point of the pin in the middle of the 

 thorax, as nearly as possible in a vertical direction. As soon 

 as the pin is fairly through the insect, remove it to a piece of 

 soft cork, and by pressing it in, push the insect as far up the 

 pin as is required. 



"For setting the insects I find nothing answers as well as a 

 piece of soft cork, papered with smooth paper, and with 

 grooves cut to admit the bodies. The wings are placed in the 

 required position by the setting needle, and are then retained 

 in their places by a wedge-shaped thin paper brace, placed over 

 them till a square brace of smooth card-board is placed over the 

 ends of the wings." (Stainton.) A small square of glass can 

 also be laid on the wings to keep them expanded, and thus 

 serve the same purpose as the paper braces. Linnaeus first set 

 the example of having the specific names of the Tortricids 

 end in ana and of the Tineids in ella, and at the present day 

 the rule is generally followed by entomologists, who have also 

 given the same terminations to the names of the smaller spe- 

 cies of Pyralids, such as Pempelia, Crambus and allied genera. 



In the group of Tineids proper, the head is roughly scaled, 

 with short and thick labial palpi, while the maxillary palpi are 

 generally extremely well developed, and the antennae some- 

 times (Adela) extremely long. The larvae live in a portable 

 case and feed on wool, hair, etc., and fungi, or decayed wood. 



Solenobia has very short labial palpi, which are almost con- 

 cealed in the hairs of the mouth, and the case of the larva is 

 shorter than usual. The unimpregnated females of this genus 

 lay fertile eggs, so that one may breed a species for years with- 



