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INSTRUCTIONS 
IN 
COLLECTING, REARING, KILLING, PINNING, SETTING 
AND ARRANGING 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
(By the Editor.) 
How to collect Lepidoptera. 
These may be collected in the larva, pupa, or imago state: 
with the latter or perfect state we will commence the con¬ 
sideration of the subject. 
To collect butterflies or moths on the winsr, the Entomo* 
logist must be provided with a ring net, which should be 
made of white book-muslin,, or of green lino or net; he must 
also be supplied with a number of pill-boxes, and with a 
pocket corked collecting-box and some pins. The insect when 
seen is pursued, but with due caution not to cause it to tal^ 
alarm, and as soon as contained within the net it must be 
boxed, or if it be of too large a size, or of a restless nature, 
it must be pinned. Moths may often be found asleep on 
palings or trunks of trees, and may be easily boxed without 
using a net; but some species will readily take alarm when 
the collector approaches, and he has the disappointment of 
seeing them fly away just as he was about to box them- 
Many insects may be dislodged from hedges and bushes by 
thrashing them with a stick, taking the precaution to keep 
on the sheltered side of the hedge, as if the young collector 
