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Lampyris Noftiluca Glow-worm : and, 
a vaft quantity is found on dry banks, 
fand banks, fand pits, pathways, &c. 
particularly when the fun ftiines warm. 
Thele inlefts, as foon as caught, 
may, with a pin of a proper lize, be 
ftuck through the body, clofe to the 
future that runs down the middle of 
the back, as reprefented in the plate 
(vide fig. 6) and then placed in the 
pocket box ; taking care that they do 
not injure one another from being 
placed too clofe together. Or if the 
colleftor be difpofed to procure this 
clafs of inlefts, he will find it very 
convenient, and much lefs cruel, to 
carry a number of fmall pill boxes in 
his pockets, in which the infefts may- 
be readily fecured and kept till he re- 
turns home, without buffering any 
pain. 1 hey are then to Ipe immerled. 
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