22 NATURALISTS’ ASSISTANT. 
box, as the insects may be pinned on the inside and thus are 
not seen by that class of society who think a naturalist a 
little “cracked.” Lepidoptera may be conveniently carried 
by folding the wings together and placing them in square 
sheets of paper folded into a triangular form. 
It is impossible to say exactly where insects may be found. 
Ia general terms, gardens, the edges of woods and banks of 
ponds and streams are more bountifully supplied than tree- 
less meadows or deep forests. In winter the moss and bark 
on trees cover many beetles, spiders, Z7mgzds and hymenop- 
terous insects, as well as pupze of these and other orders. 
In the summer, insects are far more numerous. ‘The open 
fields will afford numerous Lepidoptera, beds of flowers will 
attract all orders, certain forms affect mushrooms and toad- 
stools, and Si/phide, Nitidulide, and Staphyiinide, as well 
as various flies, may be found in the vicinity of carrion. Old 
boards and logs afford hiding places for various larvee as well 
as spiders, myriapods and beetles, while in such places the 
Thysanura thrive. In the moist loose earth at the edges or 
woods Campodea, Trichopetalum, Scolopendrella and the 
Pauropide should be sought. Other species of insects, 
notably certain Scarabeide and dipterous larve, live in ex- 
crementitious matter. Ponds and streams contain large 
numbers of insects; beetles, bugs and the larvz of several 
other groups. One may do much for science by studying 
the transformations of these aquatic forms. Of the various 
stages passed through by our species of dragon-flies, caddis- 
flies, may-flies, etc., almost nothing is known. ‘The galls 
found on trees and plants may be taken home and the larve 
