FAN FORCEPS, plate V. fig. ]2. and 13. This very useful 

 instrument to the Entomologist, must be made of steel or iron, \. 

 and about eight or ten inches in length ; its general construction 

 is like that of a pair of scissors, and it is held and used in the 

 same manner. Towards the points are formed a pair of fans, 

 which may either be square, oval, hexagonal, or octagonal in 

 the edges, and the centres covered with fine gauze. The 

 general size of the fans is from four to six inches. These 

 are used for capturing Bees, Wasps, and Muscat. They are 

 also used for catching Butterflies, Moths, and Sphinges, if 

 an insect is on a leaf, both leaf and insect may be inclosed 

 within the fans ; or if they are on a wall or the trunk of a tree, 

 they may be very easily secured by them. 



If a Butterfly, Sphinx, or^loth, are captured by the forceps, 

 while yet between the fans, they should be pressed pretty 

 smoothly, with the thumb-nail, on the thorax or body, taking 

 care, however, not to crush it. It may then be taken into the 

 hand, and a pin passed through the thorax, and then stuck into 

 the bottom of your hunting-box. 



QciLr.ji. These are of great use in carrying minute insects. 

 They should be neatly stopped with cork and cement, at one 

 end ; the other end should be provided with a small moveable 

 cork, for a stopper. Each end should be wrapped carefully 

 round with a silk thread waxed, to prevent them from splitting. 



POCKET LARVAE- Box. For collecting Caterpillars, this box 

 is very essential : it consists merely of a chip-box, with a hole 

 pierced in the centre of the top and bottom, and covered with 

 ga uze, for the admission of air. It will be necessary to put 

 into the box some of the leaves on which the larvae feed, as 

 they are very voracious, and cannot long exist without food,,.^ 



PILL- BOXES. No Entomologist should be without five o 

 six~dozen ofthese useful articles. They are of great value, iri 

 collecting the smaller species of Lepidopterous Insects, such as 

 the Tinea, &c., and only one specimen should be put in each 

 box, as, if more than one, they are apt to injure each other's 

 wings, by beating against each other. 



SETTINGJBOARDS. These must be made of deal board, from 

 a foot to fifteen inches long, and eight or ten inches broad, with 

 a piece of wood run across the ends, to prevent them from 

 warping. They are covered with cork, which must be perfectly 



