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Popular Science Monthly 



The professional butterfly chaser uses every artifice in order to capture his winged prey. 

 The time-honored net is supplemented by light at night, in order to apply practically the 

 effect of flame on moths. An umbrella is a handy receiver for cocoons shaken from bushes 



virtual impossibility of European col- 

 lectors penetrating into the country; of 

 late years, however, the Catholic mis- 

 sionaries who have succeeded in estab- 

 lishing themselves in this region have 



been instructed by Mr. Charles Oberthur 

 of Rennes, France, the owner of the 

 second largest private collection of 

 butterflies in existence, in the capture of 

 insects and they in turn have trained 



