216 INSTRUMENTS USED IN COLLECTING, &c. 
The entomological forceps made use of in Ger- 
many are not only longer in the handles, but also 
larger in the leaves. The leaves are generally from 
ten to twelve inches in diameter. 
POCKET COLLECTING BOX. 
The lepidopterist ought to provide himself with 
one or two light chip boxes, or thin deal ones. 
These should be lined with cork on the bottom. 
When an insect is taken, and killed, a pin should be - 
passed through its thorax, and with this it ought to 
be attached to the bottom of the box. These boxes 
should have camphor placed in them, within a 
small gauze bag, which has the effect of rendering 
the animal soon stupid, and ultimately of killing it. 
Messrs Kirby and Spence recommend that the 
boxes should be numbered in a small memorandum- 
book, carried for the purpose, in which should be 
inserted any remarks, as to food, station, and habits 
of any insect which may be taken, inserting against 
them the number of the box or phial that con- 
tains it. 
The same gentlemen say they have found, when 
at a loss, a piece of elder, with the pith taken out 
to a sufficient depth at both ends, and each mouth 
stopped with a wooden plug, a useful insect box. 
This we should think particularly useful in the case 
