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to delay to kill and pin, which is sometimes an important matter when your 

 game is on the wing. The advantages of the killing bottle are that you make 

 sure at once that your specimen does not render itself unfit for preservation 



The above will be sufficient to begin with so far as the apparatus for collect- 

 ing is concerned, but it is just as important to consider how the specimens 

 are to be set, and in what receptacle they are to be afterwards kept. Some 

 setting boards will be required, and must either be bought or made. As the 

 boards and the various method of setting have been very fully and ably des- 

 cribed in Vol. I. of this Journal, which is still in print, I will simply 

 observe that it is folly to catch specimens until you have the boards on which 

 to set them. You will always find friends glad to accept a well-set specimen, 

 but no one will care for a badly set one, unless, indeed, it be a very rare 

 insect, when perhaps it may be kept until a better one can be procured. 



If you have neither the time nor the patience to set your specimens per- 

 fectly, or at least creditably, it is, in my opinion, a positive sin to collect 

 them. 



On the next occasion I hope to deal with boxes and cabinets. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



February 2nd, 1887.— Dr. D. Sharp, President, in the chair. 



The President nominated Mr. Robert M'Lachlan, F.R,S., Mr. Osbert 

 Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., and Mr. Henry T. Stainton, F.R.S., Vice-Presidents 

 during the Session 1887-8. 



The Rev. W. J. Holland, M.A., of Pittsburgh, United States; Dr. F. A. 

 Dixey, M.A., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford; Mr. C. J. Gahan, M.A. 

 of Brompton, S.W.; and Mr. Sydney Klein, F.R.A.S., of Willesden, N.W.; 

 were elected Fellows. 



Mr. P. Crowley exhibited a new species of Pieris — P. Johnstoni — from 

 Kilima-njaro ; also, for comparison, specimens of Pieris mesentina and P, 

 heltica, which the new species closely resembled. 



Mr. W. White exhibited a number of preserved larvae of European Lepi- 

 doptera in various stages of growth, — including nine examples each of 

 Saturnia carpini and Deilephila euphorbia, —illustrating the gradual develop- 

 ment of the markings and colours, as explained by Prof. Weismann, in his 

 r Studies in the Theory of Descent." 



