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HINTS TO YOUNG ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
1. The Clap-net , Bat-fowling net, or Batfolder, may be had at the fishing-tackle 
shops (where called Butterfly traps), may be made of Musqueto gauze, and 
one of the rods used as a walking-stick. White for day and green at 
night. 
2. Forceps , a pair of toupee irons or curling tongs, will do very well, with a net 
or rackett fixed at the end of each tong with binding wire or small twine 
well-waxed. The Germans use a much larger and longer pair of forceps, 
having leaves of ten or twelve inches in diameter, for taking Lepidoptera 
settled. 
In one edition of Peter Pindar , Sir Joseph Banks is represented as hunting 
the “ Emperor of Morocco” with a net like this. 
3. Tongs (called Crane-necked at the Surgeon’s Instrument-makers) or Forceps, 
for securing insects armed with stings, and for dipping and killing large 
Moths, &c. (with the wings up), in boiling water. 
Miss Jermyn recommends a “ Casting-Net,” viz. tie a weight (a halfpenny 
for instance) in one of the corners of a piece of gauze (size of a handkerchief), 
a lighter weight in the second corner, and a bit of light wood in the third ; 
fix a piece of twine a yard or two long at the remaining corner. It may 
be thrown and drawn in at pleasure. Harris recommends a large sheet 
and long pole for larvae. 
4. A Ring or Racket Net is formed of wire about the size of a Ravens quill, 
turned round to a circle, bending the ends outwards by way of shanks, 
which are made fast in a brass socket; this ring is covered with gauze and 
♦ bound round with ferret; a round stick of two feet in length serves as a 
handle. A pair of these, six inches diameter, is very useful. 
5. A Hoop , Sweeping, Water or Landing-Net .— I procured one from Chapman, 
York, made of iron-hoop, the net made of white canvass, and fastened with 
wire to the middle of the hoop, the sharp edge admirably adapted for cutting 
through Thistles, Nettles, &c., in brushing herbage, and thereby not injuring 
the canvass as when fastened round by a welt. If a hinge be made it may 
be folded up, and the handle may be made like a parasol-handle. If a welt 
is used for the water-net, the inside should be painted and made very 
stout, to prevent rust, and with a moveable tin tube, or it may be made to 
screw on at the end of an umbrella. 
6. FttingsaWs Dublin Landing-Nut , used by anglers, is made of Whale-bone, 
and net fastened with wire or waxed string to the middle of the Whale-bone 
like the last net, the sharp edge not wearing the net by coming in contact 
with weeds, Brambles, &c. There should be two nets, one for sweeping, 
made of white canvass, and the other of gauze for flying insects.—The 
Whale-bone part when shut up is very portable, and one stick may be used 
