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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
ADVEK/TISEMEUTS. 
BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. An excellent collection of nearly 4000 
specimens, containing several rarities will be divided among the first eight 
subscribers at 30/- each. Address post free and enclosing stamp to T. C, 
care of Hr. Roper, Chemist, Church street, Hackney, London, N. E. 
On Saturday Feb. 14 th. 1863, will be published No. 27. ( The First 
Number of a New Volume of) 1 HE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Those who wish the * Entomologist’ forwarded by pest during the ensuing 
quarter are requested to transmit 3s. 3d. in postage stamps or post office 
order to Mr. T. Blackburn, Bowdon, Cheshire. Notice. Subscribers are 
respectfully informed that the ‘ Entomologist ’ cannot be posted unless their 
subscriptions be prepaid. 
N.B. The “Entomologist” may now be obtained in London from Mr. 
T, Cooke 513 New Oxford Street. 
Just published, Price 6s. cloth, — A MANUAL OF EUROPEAN 
BUTTERFLIES, on the plan of Stainton’s ‘ Manual of British Moths’ By 
W. F. Kirby, with figures of twelve species drawn by J. W. Wood, of 
which two are new. 
Just published price 4d. A SYNONYMOUS LTST of EUROPEAN 
BUTTERFLIES, printed on one side only for labelling Cabinets By W. 
F. Kirby. — Williams & Norgate,14, Henrietta St., Covent Garden London, 
and 20, South Frederick St, Edinburgh. 
Price One Shilling and Sixpence. 
THE INSECT HUNTER’S C OMPANION. 
By the Rev. Joseph Greene, M. A. 
A second large Edition of the ‘Insect Hunters’ is now rapidly selling’ 
and, from the number of letters I receive, I am ready to conclude that every 
purchaser writes to ask me some questions about catching, or killing, or pre- 
serving insects, or whether there is not some work describing the various pro- 
cesses. The following questions have been asked me times out of number : — 
Where to find moths and butterflies ; how to catch them ; how to bring them 
home without injury ; how to kill them ; how to set them ; how to find the 
caterpillars; how to manage them ; how to feed them ; how to breed the per- 
fect insect ; where to find chrysalises ; what to do with them ; how to keep 
mites and mould out of cabinets; howto cure grease ; how to relax insects 
when they have become stiff ; how to arrange them in cabinets ; what wood 
to use for cabinets ; and a hundred similar questions. Replying to these 
questions has taken up more time than 1 can possibly afford, and there has 
hitherto been no cheap handy-book that will at all meet the case. To supply 
tins want Mr. Greene, has -written this little book with the desire to impart to 
the juvenile student the knowdedge and the experience he has been so many 
years assiduously and patiently acquiring. He incurs no risk by the publica- 
tion : he receives no gratuity for copyright, no recompense whatever for 
his labour :with him it is truly a labour of love. — Edward Newman, 
John Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row. 
Printed for the Altrincham and Bowdon Entomological 8ociety by Thomas Balshaw 
and Son, 32, Church Street, Altrincham, in tlw County of Chester. Saturday, 
January 24th, ISfiJ. 
