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CHAPTER XL 



NOVEMBEK. 



THIS wintry month cannot be better employed by the 

 young Entomologist than in arranging his cabinet, study- 

 ing the habits and peculiarities of the insect world by 

 means of more extensive works on the subject, and endea- 

 vouring to classify and name those specimens not men- 

 tioned in this little introduction to the subject, but which 

 may have come under the notice of the industrious collector. 

 I shall now give some brief instructions relative to the 

 construction of a cabinet, for the benefit of those who may 

 desire to form a collection ; and, first, as to the necessary 

 instruments for capturing. 



The entomological net is of various forms and sizes : 

 the one I have used has a pole six feet long, to which is 



