74: INSECTS. 
‘¢ From other observations, I find, that if you kill the Spider 
and immediately after extract the entrails, then inflate them by 
means of a blow-pipe, you may preserve them tolerably well : 
you must cleanse them on the inside no more than is sufficient 
to prevent mouldiness, lest you injure the colours, which cer- 
tainly in many kinds depend on substance that lies beneath 
the skin.” 
Scorpions, and all the Spider tribe, may be sent home in 
spirits, which will preserve them perfectly, and when taken 
out and dried, they will be found to have suffered nothing 
from their immersion. We have seen some specimens set up 
after being sent home in spirits, which rivalled any which have 
been preserved in a recent state. The animals of this class 
are particularly liable to the attacks of insects, particularly in 
warm countries, on which account, the mode of transporting 
and keeping them in spirits, is, perhaps, superior to all others. 
If, however, they are set up in a warm climate, they should 
_ be well soaked with the solution of corrosive sublimate, made 
_ according to the recipe of Mr Waterton’s. See chapter on 
| Receipts. 
For the setting up of this class, see the directions for pre- 
serving insects. 
CLASS VIIIL—MYRIAPODA. 
This class contains the Julus, or Gally worms, the Scolo- 
pendra, and others, which were formerly ranked as insects. 
The mode, pointed out for the preceding class, and for 
insects, also applies to this class. They may also be sent 
home in the same way, or they may be set up as directed for 
insects. 
CLASS IX.—INSECTS. 
Every country of the world is replete with this extensive 
and interesting class of beings, whose forms are infinitely di- 
versified, and whose species are the most numerous of any ciass 
in the animal kingdom. 
