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turn unlefs prevented by the following me- 

 thod. 



The point of the needle mud be pa (Ted 

 through a fmall hole in thin brafs, or tin plate, 

 and then held in the flame of a candle for about 

 half a minute, which will effectually deilroy the 

 life of the infect. 



Although the idea of burning the in feci to 

 death may appear cruel at fir ft fight, yet it 

 mould be remembered, that this is not done 

 till after the infect has been deprived of fenfa- 

 tion, by preffure firft recommended ; fo that, 

 on the whole, it appears to be the moil eafy and, 

 fpeedy method of deflroying them hitherto prac- 

 tifed. 



It is hardly neceffary to add, that a brafs or 

 tin plate, for which a piece of card or pafte- 

 board may be fubflituted, is ufed to prevent the 

 moth from receiving any injury from the can- 

 dle. 



The beft method of having the mo ft perfect 

 butterflies, is to find out, if polfible, the larva or 

 caterpillar of each, by examining the plants, 

 fhrubs or trees they ufually feed upon, or by 

 beating the fhrubs and trees with long poles, and 

 thereby fhaking the caterpillars into a Iheet 

 fpread underneath to receive them ; to put them 

 into boxes covered with thin canvas, gauze, or 

 cat-gut (pi. 2, fig. 1) and to feed them with 

 the frefh leaves of the tree or herb on which 

 they are found ; when they are full-grown, they 

 will change into the pupa, or chryfalis ftate, and 

 require then no other care, till they come out 

 perfect butterflies, at which time they may be 

 killed, as before directed. Sometimes thefe in- 



G feas, 



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