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DIRECTIONS FOR SENDING INSECTS. 
All inquiries about insects, injurious or otherwise. Should be accompanied 
by specimens, the more the better. Such specimens, if dead, should be 
tin or wooden box. They will come by mail for one cent per ounce. In¬ 
sects SHOULD NEVER BE INCLOSED LOOSE IN THE LETTER. Whenever 
possible, larvae grubs, caterpillars, maggots, etc.) should ^be packed 
needed—along with a supply of their appropriate food sufficient to last then! 
on their journey; otherwise they generally die on the road and shrivel up. 
Send as full an account as possible of the habits of the insect respecting 
which you desire information; for example, what plant or plants it infests; 
whether it destroys the leaves, the buds, the twigs, or the stem; how long it 
has been known to you; what amount of damage it has done, etc. Such par¬ 
ticulars are often not only of high scientific interest, but of great practical 
importance. In sending soft insects or larvae that have been killed in al¬ 
cohol, they should be packed in cotton saturated with alcohol. In sending 
pinned or mounted insects, always pin them securely in a box to be inclosed 
in a larger box, the space between the two boxes to be packed with so ue 
soft or elastic material, to prevent too violent jarring. Packages should 
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