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inclndofl air may not ovorturii it ; in two niinntcs or less, nil 

 the insects will be dead and not all wetted. Hutterflics are 

 also said to be reiulily killed by suflocating tliem with the 

 fumes of a lighted match under a boson. Grcot care should 

 be taken that the itidimncc or legs are not injured. 



When any of the HutterPies are extended on the setting 

 board beneath the card braces, let them remain in that 

 situation, till the aqueous moisture, and the oily and saline 

 particles also, be evaporated ; otherwise the wings mil not 

 only start fi'om their natural i)o.sition, but the bodies, with 

 the antenna;, will grow mouldy when in the cabinet ; and 

 what is of worse consequence, breed millions of ani/naleiiles, 

 which, except some remedy is applied, will infalliby destroy 

 (hem. They should therefore be kept in some dry place, 

 open to the air, but free from dust, for a considerable time 

 before they are placed in the cabinet. 



If at any time the preserved insect should appear as if 

 growing mouldy, or be infested with small ffw/wn/fHte, which 

 may be known by a kind of dnst seen beneath the abdomen, 

 the only effectual remedy is the smoke of tobacco, which 

 must be blown through the small end of a pipe, through a 

 hole made for that pm-posc, at the back of the drawer ov 

 box which contains them. This not onlj' coiTccts the putrid 

 and stagnant air, but kills those formidable enemies which 

 often destroy whole cabinets of in,sect.s. This process will 

 preserve them for twelve months, when it will be necessary 

 to rejieat it. The smoke will not in any degree injm'C the 

 beauty of the insects. 



The CoLLECTiNo Box should l)e about four inches dee]), 

 and coi-ked at top and bottom. A lai'ge chip box, being 

 light, answers well. Camphor in muslin, or a small piece of 

 sponge saturated with spirits of turi)entine, should be placed 

 in the )jox ; the effluvia tending to destroy life. 



