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23. Braces or Cramps, and Pins (15) bent at their points like bayonets with 
(24) the Pincers invented by Mr. Waring, of Liverpool, for setting legs of 
Beetles, &c. 
25. Setting Boards , lined with cork and washed with flake white and isinglass, 
and some lines ruled at right-angles, so as to set the insect true ; also a line 
marked into inches and lines, and if a large box were divided, the box or 
cage containing the setting boards on one side, and the lama cage on the 
other, with a glass partition; the other sides covered with wire-gauze, and 
under this in the travelling box should be 
26. The Travelling Store Box , made to fit the size of the two above boxes. 
There should be a partition (with a sliding cover) with smaller divisions for 
pliers, setting-needles, camphor, matches, a wax candle, Jones’s Lueifer-box, 
gum-bottle, &c. Also Tortrix and Tinese pins, the places for them being 
lined with cork to save their points. Camel’s-hair brush, card-paper, &c. 
27. Pocket Magnifier. —May be had of Messrs. Bently and Chant, No. 1 , 
King’s-Head-Court, St. Martin’s-Le-Grand, opposite the New Post-Office. 
It is the common pocket magnifying-glass used by botanists. 
28. Pocket collecting Box , should be made or covered with tin, to keep the insects 
cool, and prevent their drying too fast on a very hot day. It should contain 
a little eamphor and muslin. 
29. Pocket Larva Box. —It is very objectionable except when well lined with 
paper. A tin box perforated with holes is better upon the whole. 
30. Breeding Cages. —These should have two bottles for the plants to be changed 
alternately, and for the larvae to crawl to the fresh herbs. The late Captain 
Blomer suggested (through the Rev. W. Yonge) fresh-cut turf and saw¬ 
dust for the bottom of the cages. They should be kept in a cool moist 
place, as in a cellar or out-house, during the winter. The bottom to be 
covered with fine mould, sand, and rotten wood from old Pollard trees, to 
the depth of several inches, and kept moist. Such Moths as are inclosed in 
a hard case or shell, as the Puss, Goat Moth, &c., should be carefully freed 
from it, as the aperture which the insect naturally makes is so small as not 
to permit it to pass without injury. The late Rev. T. Skrimshire, for the 
purpose of rearing insects from the egg to the perfect state, had procured a 
number of tin boxes, about two inches square, two sides of which, and also 
the top and bottom, are of tin perforated with small holes ; the remaining 
two are glazed; and one of the tin sides constitutes a door which slides in 
a groove. Twelve of these are placed in a wooden trough, partitioned off 
for each box about a quarter of an inch deep, and made perfectly water¬ 
tight. Only one caterpillar, or a brood, is placed in each of these boxes, 
