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"WTiilst on tlie subject of foreign insects I slionld like to 

 impress upon the young beginner not too greedily to rush 

 after "real Britisb" specimens of rarities, or lie may find that 

 he has purchased, at the expense of some pounds, perhaps, 

 a reset continental type worth as many pence. I fancy I see 

 our would-be entomologist shaking his head and very sagely 

 saying, " Oh no ! I intend to collect all my insects myself." My 

 young friend, let me tell you that you will have to collect far 

 beyond the prescribed threescore years and ten if you would 



Fia. 48.— Butterfly "Beaced" on Board, 



yourself collect all the British lepidoptera. Work, therefore, 

 in collecting as hard as you can, and when you want a rarity to 

 fill up a void in your cabinet, go at once to some respectable 

 dealer and ask for a continental type of the insect you want, 

 place it in your cabinet, label it " Foreign," and when you can 

 replace it with an undoubted *' Britisher " think yourself lucky. 

 To make my meaning plain, we will take the Bath White but- 

 terfly {Pieris Daplidice) as an example. An undoubted British 



