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BREEDING LARVA. 
The finest specimens of Lepidoptera are obtained by 
rearing from the larval or pupal stages. ‘This is accomplished 
by the use of breeding cages. For this purpose glass tum- 
blers covered with gauze may be employed, but a better thing 
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is a box especially prepared for the purpose. Take a wooden 
box without a cover, lay it on its side and tack a lath across 
the lower edge so that a shallow tray is made; then cover 
the rest of the opening with gauze or mosquito netting: 
Then put a small door in the side, which, by the inversion of 
the box, becomes the top. The box should then have a layer 
of moist earth reaching to the top of the lath. It is fre- 
quently well to subdivide the box as larvee are occasionally 
apt to desert a vegetable diet and eat their companions. 
