THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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 Bent to John E. Robson, Bellerby Terrace, West 

 ■Hartlepool, S.L. Mosley, Primrose Hill, Hudders- 

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The Young Naturalist may also be had as 

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 Carlisle Road, Manningham. 

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EXCHANGES. 



Duplicates. — Sinapis, Paphia, Sibylla, Aglaia, 

 ielene, Adippe, W. alburn, Quercus, Adonis, 

 "orydon, Alsus, Linea, Comma, Actceon, 

 ylvanus. W. Priest, 13, Holgate-road, York. 



I have lor exchange some beautifully marked 

 ellow and grey frogs from Italy, charming pets 

 nd easily kept, which I will gladly exchange for 

 ood Lepidoptera. J. H. Leech, St. Paul's 

 Icarage, Shanklin, I.W. 



Duplicates. — Geryon, Z.trifolii, Tritici, Pisi, 

 estiva, Augur, Bipurrctaria, Brumata, Suffumata, 

 'rogemmaria, &c. John E. Robson, Bellerby 

 'errace, West Hartlepool. 



PRESERVING 

 CATERPILLARS. 



It always gives us great pleasure to answer 

 questions from our readers, because we know that 

 in so doing we are writing what some one wishes 

 to know ; and a few words on the above subject 

 I will, we think, be read with interest by more than 

 the one person who asked us to explain the process. 

 We were amongst the first, at any rate in this part 

 ■ of the country, to call attention to the importance 

 ! of having the larva; of butterflies and moths side 

 j by side with the perfect insects, thus representing 

 ! their life-histories at one glance. Then preserved 

 : caterpillars were very rare, and few people knew 

 j how to do them ; now they may be found in 

 I almost every collection, either done by the person 

 , who possesses them, or obtained through the use- 

 ful medium of exchange. To begin and describe 

 a lot of complicated apparatus, and a long and 

 tedious process would only end in complete failure, 

 because it would be either given up in disgust, or 

 else never attempted ; we will therefore lay down 

 the simplest plan we know, and then if the 

 operator finds that he is successful, he can get 

 a more complete set of machinery, and go in for 

 a larger trade. 



The best caterpillars to try upon are those with- 

 out hair and dark in colour ; green ones are very 

 difficult to do satisfactorily, even to a person of 

 experience, and hairy ones are apt to lose their 

 hair by too rough handling. When the cater- 

 pillar is procured, kill it in the " cyanide bottle," 

 or by immersion in mineral naphtha, and if by 

 the latter process, dry it by rolling between blotting 

 paper. Then get it upon blotting paper, and with 

 the finger begin to roll gently towards the anal 

 aperture ; assist the exit of the contents with a 

 needle or the point of a penknife, until the skin 

 is quite flat, and all the contents extracted. Be 

 careful not to burst the skin by too violent pressure. 

 Place it between two folds of dry blotting paper, 

 and give it another squeeze to get out as much as 

 you can of the remaining moisture. You now 

 want a blow-pipe, such a one as was described 

 for blowing birds' eggs, only straight instead of 

 bent. Then go to a watchmaker's and get a bit 

 of steel spring ; file a little notch at one end, and 

 bend it as in the annexed cut, fig. 28, fastening it 

 firmly to the blow-pipe with waxed thread. 



