74 INSECTS. 



'< From other observations, I find, that if you kill the Spider 

 and immediately after extract the entrails, then inflate them by 

 means of a blow-pipe, you may preserve them tolerably well : 

 you must cleanse them on the inside no more than is sufficient 

 to prevent mouldiness, lest you injure the colours, which cer- 

 tainly in many kinds depend on substance that lies beneath 

 the skin." 



Scorpions, and all the Spider tribe, may be sent home in 

 spirits, which will preserve them perfectly, and when taken 

 out and dried, they will be found to have suffered nothing 

 from their immersion. We have seen some specimens set up 

 after being sent home in spirits, which rivalled any which have 

 been preserved in a recent state. The animals of this class 

 are particularly liable to the attacks of insects, particularly in 

 warm countries, on which account, the mode of transporting 

 and keeping them in spirits, is, perhaps, superior to all others. 

 If, however, they are set up in a warm climate, they should 

 be well soaked with the solution of corrosive sublimate, made 

 according to the recipe of Mr Waterton's. See chapter on 

 Receipts. 



For the setting up of this class, see the directions for pre- 

 serving insects. 



CLASS VIII. MYRIAPODA. 



This class contains the Julus, or Gaily worms, the Scolo- 

 pendra, and others, which were formerly ranked as insects. 

 The mode, pointed out for the preceding class, and for 

 insects, also applies to this class. They may also be sent 

 home in the same way, or they may be set up as directed for 

 insects. 



CLASS IX. INSECTS. 



Every country of the world is replete with this extensive 

 and interesting class of beings, whose forms are infinitely di- 

 versified, and whose species are the most numerous of any class 

 in the animal kingdom. 



