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NOTE ON AN ENTOMOLOGICAL STORE-BOX SUITABLE 

 FOR USE IN THE TROPICS. 



By Harold H. King, F.E.S., 



Government Entomologist, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 



The following is a description of a modified and improved form of the store- 

 box described by Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy in Parasitology, vol. iv, p. 174 : — 



In Khartoum, where the shade temperature is sometimes 116° F., boxes of the 

 type in use at Pusa were found to be unsuitable. The tops and bottoms of many 

 of them split, while the paraffin wax became too soft to hold the cork carpet in 

 position. The type of box which I am now using and Avhich is proving very 

 reliable, differs from the Pusa box in two respects. Instead of being made 

 entirely of teak, the top and bottom are of three-ply wood, and the cork carpet 

 instead of being bedded in paraffin wax is held in position by glue. In all other 

 respects it resembles the Pusa box, the cork carpet being enamelled white 

 above and covered with a mixture of 80 per cent, paraffin wax (melting point 

 136° F.) and 20 per cent, naphthaline, melted and run in when the glue has 

 become firm. 



