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2. The metallic-green species ( Cor - 
dulia, Lestes ) require no preparation, as 
they do not change colour. “ C. D. S.” 
complains that his specimens do not 
keep ; perhaps this arises from his having 
omitted, after cleaning out the inside, to 
draw in a piece of dry thread, instead 
of leaving in the moist thread already 
used. 
3. In collecting the Libellulas, I take 
a number of strips of paper, doubled in 
two, and place the wings of a caught 
specimen between the folds, and, with a 
pin at each side of the wings, fasten it 
into my collecting-box, without pinning 
the dragonfly itself: thus in a small box 
you may pack mauy in a small compass, 
taking care not to put them within reach 
of each other’s jaws, or fatal consequences 
might ensue: the creatures can thus be 
brought home alive, and kept till the 
operator is ready. The readiest way of 
killing them is to place box and all close 
to a window on which the sun is shining 
strongly ; in ten miuutes or a quarter of 
an hour all will be dead, even the largest 
species. 
I trust the season of 1858 will not 
be allowed to pass away without some 
further progress being made in the study 
of British Neuropterology. 
I should be much obliged if the nu- 
merous entomologists in your country 
would pin such Phryganidai as they acci- 
dentally meet with, and when a sufficient 
number are thus collected perhaps you 
would undertake to forward them to me. 
I sadly suffer from the poverty of mate- 
rials amongst the British Phryganidae, 
and there are many knotty points only to 
be solved by the sight of a series of 
specimens. 
Da. Hagen. 
Konigsberg. 
Dartforo Heath. — According to an- 
nouncement, Mr. Stainton duly appeared 
at the Dartford station at 5.32 last 
Saturday, but the London entomologisls 
had all their ardour washed out of them 
by the heavy rain in the morning, and 
not a single one was to be seen at the 
starting post. Fortunately Dartford it- 
self possesses a single entomologist, who 
was at the station to meet the expected 
troop, so that Mr. Stainton was not quite 
“alone in his glory,” and of course, as 
the insects on the fence had only to be 
divided by 2 instead of by 12, it was a 
case of “ the move the merrier, the fewer 
the better cheer." A few bushes of 
Genista Anglica yielded Coleophora Ge- 
nista so plentifully that nearly a hundred 
larva of that species which had dined on 
Dartford Heath on Saturday breakfasted 
at Lewisham the next morning. 
To Entomologists. 
C HIP BOXES 2d. per dozen, or if 
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they will be charged l^d. per dozen. 
Methylated Chloroform for killing 
Moths, &c., 6d. per oz. Benzine for 
extracting Grease. Solution for de- 
stroying the Insects which attack speci- 
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BY H. T. STAINTON. 
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