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(hell, made up of fmall pieces of rotten wood. 

 Hence alfo, as many go into the earth, valuable 

 infects may fometimes be found by digging after 

 them a foot deep, about the roots of trees, 

 fhrubs, and plants. 



IV. The fourth clafs of infects (neuroptera) 

 may be killed with fpirit of wine, oil of tur- 

 pentine, or by the fumes of fulphur. 



V. Thofe of the next clafs (hymenoptera) 

 may be killed in the fame manner. A pin may 

 be run through one of their wing-lhells and 

 body, as reprefented in plate, fig. 5. 



VI. Infects of the fixth clafs (diptera) may 

 likewife be killed by fpirit, or by fumes of ful- 

 phur. 



VII. Thofe of the laft divifion (aptera) are in 

 gene.ral fubjects which mould be kept in fpirit. 



When in fearch of infects, we mould have a 

 box fuitable to carry in the pocket, lined with 

 cork at the bottom and top to (tick them upon, 

 until they are brought home. If this box be 

 ftrongly impregnated with camphor, the infects 

 foon become ftuperied, and are thereby prevented 

 from fluttering and injuring their plumage. 

 Befides a gauze forceps, the collector mould 

 have a large mufqueto gauze net, made in the 

 fhape of a bat fowling-net, and alio a pin- 

 cufhion with three or four different fizes of pins, 

 to fuit the different fizes of infects. 



In hot climates, infects of every kind, but 

 particularly the larger, are liable to be eaten by 

 ants and other fmall infects, efpecially before 

 they are perfectly dry : to avoid this, the piece 

 of cork on which our infects are ftuck in order 

 to be dried, mould be fufpended from the del- 

 ing of a room, by means of a (lender firing or 



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