DENTON BROTHERS' MOUNT. 



Every beginner should start a collection. Save a perfect pair of every species. 

 If you have little money keep your specimens in cigar boxes lined with cork or 

 cork-linoleum. All dealers sell insect boxes and the Schmitt is the best. Thebaut 

 Bros., 861 Folsom Street, San Francisco, Cal., make an excellent pasteboard box 

 which sells, unhned, for twenty-five cents. Naphthalene cones or flakes, or moth 

 balls, will keep out dermestids. 



If you can afford it individual mounts are attractive, and unless you intend to 

 make a large collection, are frequently desirable. I like the Denton Brothers' 

 Mount figured on preceding page. It is simple, neat and strikingly effective. This 

 is not a paid advertisement, nor will you see one in this magazine. All sub- 

 scribers may advertise free of charge, but Denton Brothers are not even subscribers, 

 nor have they requested any mention. Their exquisite mounts speak for them- 

 selves and require no advertising. Their address is "Denton Road, Wellesley, 

 Mass.," and upon application they will send you price lists and description. 



In one of their letters is the following: "We wish to congratulate you on the 

 good work you are doing. We started in as boys, collecting for our own amuse- 

 ment, and it has developed into a life business. How we would have liked to 

 have had the help you are giving young collectors." 



COLLECTING HEMIPTERA. 



J. R. de la Torre Bueno, 25 Broad Street, New York, N. Y., writes: "I 

 shall be only too glad to furnish you with any information you would like to have 

 in regard to collecting and preserving Hemiptera. As a matter of fact, I have 

 largely developed my own methods by practice and observation, owing to tnere 

 being so little about the subject in the books. Without doubt, by far the best 

 way to get the most land bugs, as regards numbers and species, is with the sweep- 

 ing net. Mine is made of unbleached cotton, I think, very heavy but quite pliable. 

 I have tried duck, but it is so stiff that it stands right out and bugs fly up out of it 

 without any trouble. It is about a foot across, and the ring is one piece of one- 

 eighth steel rod. The bag is bound around the top with leather to the depth of 

 about an inch and a half and a wire run through it, copper, preferably, as it is 

 more pliable. There are holes about two or three inches apart punched along the 

 upper edge of the binding, and through these and under the wire I put the little 

 split rings you can buy for about five cents a dozen at any hardware store. These 

 can then be put over the ring from the end, and you have a very strong net, which 

 will last for a very long while without having to be renewed. Mine is now three 

 years old, and is beginning to get thin at the bottom, in front. At such times, I 

 simply change the net around and shift another part to the front, and there you 

 are. 



"Howard's Insect Book is one of Doubleday's Nature Library and you can 

 get it for $3 or less, perhaps. So far as treating of Hemiptera goes, there are 

 no works published in this country which give an adequate treatment of the sub- 

 ject. In consequence, I have in hand a Hand Book of the Order, covering the 

 Eastern United States, but I shall likely include in my tables many Western genera 

 and even species. 



i "I received the other day your Butterfly Farmer, and it is very interesting as 

 showing what can be done by a person of intelligence and energy in developing 

 almost any line. You have my hearty congratulations and best wishes. Also, I 



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