156 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
erg different Land Wasps of large size, which are constantly on the 
‘search for crickets to provision their nests with. Another pretty 
endo ; but som 
station Baa motionless on the axils of leaves and other parts 
-of plants, to wait for their Aini —H. W. Bartes, Linnean Trans- 
actions, 1862, p. 509. 
A new IxsecT Box.— The 
ecessity for a cheap, and 
ficient insect box, has long 
been Pegs by collec- 
tors. Sheet cork is not only 
j expensive, zi oftentimes dif- 
ult procure; linings of 
its merits for several years, 
not only in cases used for the 
transportation of specimens, but in those intended for permanent exhi- 
bition. A box is made of the required depth, and a light frame is fitted 
to its interior. Upon the upper and under surfaces of this frame, a sheet 
of white paper (drawing, or log paper answers the purpose) is securely 
glued. h r ha 
about one-fourth of an inch from the oaae of the box, and the pin is 
forced down through the two thicknesses of paper, and if the bottom 
of the box be of soft pine, the point of ex pin may be slightly forced 
into it. It is thus firmly held at two or three different a and 
all lateral movements are Sass sin Other advantages are secured 
firmness; when the box a cleaning 
a ec oat of a portion of the side and bottom of the 
