CHAPTER II. 



DESCRIPTION OP THE STRUCTURE OP THE INSECT 

 VIVARIUM AND OP THE INSECTS REPRESENTED 

 "WITHIN IT IN THE FRONTISPIECE. 



'EFOllE proceeding to describe the 

 form and structure of the " insect 

 home," as an ornamental drawing- 

 room object, I will say a few words 

 on the more ordinary contrivances long 

 since resorted to by entomologists for the 

 rearing of caterpillars and chrysalides ; 

 as that will at once prove to the reader 

 the practicability of the plan about to be suggested. 

 In these rude "breeding cages," as they are termed 

 by entomologists, but which might more correctly 

 be termed " rearing cages," many of the conditions 

 have been already learnt and established by expe- 

 rience, which I shall adopt in my somewhat more 

 elaborate, and decidedly more ornamental, structure. 

 By several of the primitive methods referred to, 

 and, in some instances, without the seemingly requi- 



