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The methods used for collecting Lcpidoptera have 

 been so often and so exhaustively described that it is 

 unnecessary to refer to them. Suffice it to say, that 

 the author has always found it best to box every 

 specimen alive, and kill them on his return by placing 

 all the boxes with their contents in a large air-tight 

 tin canister, containing either crushed laurel-leaves or 

 pure ammonia on a piece of sponge. They will be 

 found in excellent condition for setting on the following 



The Continental method of setting (i.e. with the 

 wint's flat, and the pin driven three-quarters of the way 

 through the insect, perpendicular to the plane of the 

 wings) will be found far preferable to the mode of 

 setting prevalent in this country (in which the pins are 

 found to be usually placed at varying angles and the 

 wings at difl'ercnt slopes). 



The advantages of the former method are : — 



(1) The shape of the wings is easier to see ; 



(2) The fringes do not get damaged against the 



bottom of the drawer ; 



