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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
IMPLEMENTS FOR COLLECTING. 
THE NET. 
First of all and most important of all is the net. The lightest, 
most serviceable, and in every way the best net that I know of is 
made with a rim of rattan. Procure a light piece of straight-grained 
pine, two feet long and one inch thick. Plane it down for a net 
handle a little smaller at one end, and make a grove with a gouge, 
on either side of the smaller end, four inches long. Now, take a 
piece of rattan sixty-six inches long, rather thicker than a lead- 
pencil, and fasten the ends to the handle with two bands of copper 
wire. This will make a net about eighteen inches in diameter. By 
now taking a short piece of rattan, twenty inches long, making a 
long level at both ends, grooving them out a little and wiring it to 
the rattan hoop, as shown in the following figure, you have a splendid 
rim for a net, and one that will last for years. In order to be sure 
