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using a fine pointed forceps for the purpose, wipe out the inside of the 
insect with a small wad of cotton and it is ready to be ‘stuffed’ or 
filled up. When this latter is done the insect may be either pinned 
into a box prepared for the purpose at once, or it can be wrapped in 
paper and packed away for future use. To ‘stuff’ cut some cotton 
bat (raw cotton) in short pieces and fill up the insect through the open- 
ing previously made for cleaning it, using the same ora similar pair of 
forceps for the purpose, taking care not to fill too full nor to stretch 
the abdomen beyond its original dimensions, When the filling is com- 
pleted carefully draw the edges of the several segments together and 
gently press the sides of abdomen into shape with the fingers. This 
can all be done, after a little practice, in about four or five minutes 
time. The advantage in favor of a specimen thus handled are several. 
It will not decay nor turn dark, the original colors will be retained 
more nearly perfect, and there is but little danger under ordinarily 
careful treatment of its being attacked in future by the museum pests 
mentioned. Specimens when thus prepared by an expert and properly 
labeled are easily worth three or four timesas much for cabinet spec- 
imens as those not so cared for. Especially is this true with reference 
to specimens collected in warm, moist climates where decay is rapid, 
and where mould is sure to attack specimens that are long in drying.” 
Recent Literature.—Mr. H. G. Barber of the University of 
Nebraska publishes an interesting list’ of Nebraska butterflies. One 
hundred and thirty-seven species are enumerated. 
Mr. W. A. Snow contributes three dipterological papers to the 
Kansas University Quarterly for January, 1895. Professor S. W. 
Williston also contributes a paper on Exotic Tabanidæ to the same 
issue. 
Mr. G. C. Davis publishes as Bulletin 116 of the Michigan Agricult- _ 
ural College Experiment Station a 24 page discussion of Insectsof the 
Clover Field. 
Prof. Lawrence Bruner discusses in 75 pages of the Nebraska Horti- 
cultural Report for 1894 the Insect Enemies of the Apple Trees and 
its Fruit. 
In Bulletin 109 of the New Jersey Station Prof. J. B. Smith discusses 
cut worms, the sinuate pear-borer, the potato stalk borer and the 
insecticidal value of bisulphide of carbon. In Bulletin 106 the San’ 
José Scale is treated of. 
5 Proc. Nebr. Acad. Sci. IV, pp. 16-22, 1894. 
