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common Tarantula, the latter of which is able to inflif&ta 
severe bite causing great pain and irritation. The former 
is somewhat rare, and consequently not often found in 
a mixed colle€tion. Most of the commoner spiders, such 
as house spiders, and garden spiders, are very beautifully 
marked and form very interesting objeéts under the 
microscope.. About the bees and wasps much might be 
said; the common bee, black with yellow bands is too 
well known to need any further notice; of the wasps, 
there are a good many sorts. The Marabunta is about 
the best known of these. It builds its nest under bridges, 
under eaves, or in houses and on walls, it stings very 
severely, the poison being so potent as to canse great 
pain and swelling. There are also those that build the 
peculiar papier maché-like nests on the boughs of trees. 
The study of Entomology is not only interesting and 
instruétive, but may be made remunerative. Dealers on 
the Continent and in England, for good specimens of 
moth butterflies and inse€ts, are willing to pay a fair 
price but they decline to have anything to do with 
damaged specimens. 
The best method then, of course, is to obtain the larva, 
and place it in a “‘ breeding cage” (an ordinary packing 
case about 2 feet long with two sides knocked out and 
covered with perforated zinc, which will cost a trifle, 
will answer,) and by feeding the caterpillar on the leaves 
of the plant on which it was found, it will assume the 
pupal stage, when it may be placed in earth slightly 
damped, or bran, and left until the moth emerges. Next 
procure from the chemist, a French plum bottle, get it 
filled to a depth of half an inch with powdered cyanide 
of potassium and plaster of paris, which must be allowed 
