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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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Over three hundred bird and mammal skins, tAvelve hundred 

 butterflies, a few beetles, all the game and fish we could eat, 

 hearty out-door life and pure air we had enjoyed for more 

 than seven weeks, and a closer contact with nature than had 

 ever fallen to our lot, and all for a reasonable expenditure of 

 money. Our appetites were enormous, our health good, and 

 moreover there is nothing equal 10 the pleasure of getting 

 home and living in a house once more. As our friends had 

 said, " The memories of that trip will always be with us and 

 we have little to regret. ' ' May all who hear this crude account 

 some day, sometime, have an equally enjoyable trip. 



A New Device. 



Useful for taking Moths from Tree Trunks, Fences, etc., or from the 

 Ground without using the Net. 



By F. A. Merrick, New Brighton, Pa. 



a. A pint Mason fruit jar. 

 d. Clamp for holding jar. 



c. Threaded spud to fit net 

 handle. 



d. Thumbscrew to clamp jar 

 firmly. 



e. Metal screw top of Mason jar. 

 /. Opening cut through lid full 



size of jar opening. 

 ^. Stop to prevent slide pulling 



out of frame. 

 h. Frame soldered to top of lid. 

 i. Slide door to close jar when 



insect is in. 

 J. Rubber band {}4 in. 0.0.0.) 

 spring to close slide. 

 i. Pin soldered to lid to hold end of spring. 



/. Pin (bent wire nail) soldered to slide door to hold other end of rubber 

 band. 

 iH String for opening slide door. 



The above cut shows very clearly an arrangement for an au- 

 tomatic closing lid for cyanide jar, also clamp for attaching jar 

 to net handle. As I use the pint Mason jar exclusively for my 

 cyanide jar, and use the M. Abbot Fraser net frame and jointed 

 handle, 1, of course, made it to suit these things — but a socket 

 in place of threaded bolt at " C " would receive any cane or 

 stick of any kind, and in place of the screw lid for a Mason 



