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in some form of tight insect-box or cabinet. The pin should 

 be placed through the thorax, and the right-hand wing-cover 

 and wing expanded horizontally and at right-angles to the 

 body, so as to show their form and markings, while the left 

 wing-cover and wing remain in a folded position. The legs 

 should be neatly set in position so as to dry in a uniform 

 posture. The long antennae of some species are very liable 

 to be broken when dry, and in such cases should be laid 

 backward over the body where they will be less subject to 

 injury. Some large-boJied species, such as M. biriltatvs, 

 are apt to discolour when dried, and therefore the contents 

 of the ablomen should be removed through a small slit in the 

 underside, and a little cotton-wool inserted to prevent collapse. 

 On the pin, beneath the specimen, must be a small paper 

 label having the speciac name, if known, and always the 

 place and date of capture. Without such data specimens 

 are scientifically useless. Other general notes and observa- 

 tions should be recorded in a note-book, of which probably 

 the loose-leaf ones are the best, as being expansive. Certain 

 pages may be reserved for notes on each species, so that the 

 information collected will always be orderly and leadily 

 available. I use such loose-leaf books, in which the notes 

 are arranged systematically according to species, so that 

 new records or observations- are added directly under their 

 proper heads, and new leaves are inserted whenever required. 

 This method saves much labour in afterwards assembling 

 one's notes. 



Orthoptpra of Xova Scotia. 



Historizal notes. — So far as I can ascertain, nothing 

 definite regarding the Orthoptera of Nova Scotia was pub- 

 lished unt41 18.i9-70. Walter Bromley's anonymous "General 

 Description of Nova Scotia", new edition, Halifax, 1825, 

 page 33, gives a list of what he terms "most of the insects 

 of Xova Scotia", the whole list consisting of only thirty-one 

 common nam.es, among which are merely mentioned the 



