[1]PluralChrysalides.[2]MakingLepidosin genitive.[3]A word derived from the Latin, and meaning literally a "sucker."[4]Antennain the singular number.[5]Bailey's "Festus."[6]As beginners in entomology are, I know, often glad to be informed of some reliable dealer from whom to procure the apparatus required for the pursuit, I have pleasure in here giving the name of Mr. T. Cooke, of 30, Museum Street (six doors from the British Museum), where all the apparatus mentioned in this work, and numerous other natural history articles, are to be found, good and cheap, I believe. For the guidance of young amateurs, I will mention the prices of a few of the more necessary articles I have myself purchased or examined at the above establishment. Cane ring-nets, with stick, and ready for use, 2s.; ring-net, with three-jointed metal ring and screw-socket, 4s.6d.; pocket collecting-boxes, corked, 3d. to 1s.each; store-boxes, 10 in. by 8 in., corked top and bottom, 2s.6d.; drying houses, for securely keeping setting-boards when in use, and containing eleven corked setting-boards and drawer for pins, &c., 10s.6d.; sheet cork for lining cabinets, 7 in. by 3½ in., 1s.6d.doz. sheets; entomological pins, three sizes, mixed, 1s.oz., &c., &c.[7]Polyommatus Bœticus.[8]A very ingenious and neat contrivance—the invention of my friend Dr. Allchin, of Bayswater. It may be obtained of Messrs. Cooke & Son, Naturalists, 30, Museum Street, London, W.C. It is of brass, with screw caps, the inner one having a small hole through which the chloroform can be used, drop by drop. The price is 4s.Also, the new Cyanide Killing-bottles, 1s.6d.; 2s.ready for use.[9]Cleopatra, as Duponchel observes, is found in France, only in the hottest parts, and is first seen as we go southwards, about Avignon, but abounds most on the shores of the Mediterranean.Why the two varietiesCleopatraand the commonRhamnifly together we cannot fully explain; but it is possible there may be a constitutional difference between individual insects, just as we see that of two Englishmen going to a hot climate, one will brown deeply, while the complexion of the other will hardly alter, though exposed to the very same external influence.[10]See page171.[11]See the meaning of Chrysalis and Aurelia, on page12.
[1]PluralChrysalides.
[2]MakingLepidosin genitive.
[3]A word derived from the Latin, and meaning literally a "sucker."
[4]Antennain the singular number.
[5]Bailey's "Festus."
[6]As beginners in entomology are, I know, often glad to be informed of some reliable dealer from whom to procure the apparatus required for the pursuit, I have pleasure in here giving the name of Mr. T. Cooke, of 30, Museum Street (six doors from the British Museum), where all the apparatus mentioned in this work, and numerous other natural history articles, are to be found, good and cheap, I believe. For the guidance of young amateurs, I will mention the prices of a few of the more necessary articles I have myself purchased or examined at the above establishment. Cane ring-nets, with stick, and ready for use, 2s.; ring-net, with three-jointed metal ring and screw-socket, 4s.6d.; pocket collecting-boxes, corked, 3d. to 1s.each; store-boxes, 10 in. by 8 in., corked top and bottom, 2s.6d.; drying houses, for securely keeping setting-boards when in use, and containing eleven corked setting-boards and drawer for pins, &c., 10s.6d.; sheet cork for lining cabinets, 7 in. by 3½ in., 1s.6d.doz. sheets; entomological pins, three sizes, mixed, 1s.oz., &c., &c.
[7]Polyommatus Bœticus.
[8]A very ingenious and neat contrivance—the invention of my friend Dr. Allchin, of Bayswater. It may be obtained of Messrs. Cooke & Son, Naturalists, 30, Museum Street, London, W.C. It is of brass, with screw caps, the inner one having a small hole through which the chloroform can be used, drop by drop. The price is 4s.Also, the new Cyanide Killing-bottles, 1s.6d.; 2s.ready for use.
[9]Cleopatra, as Duponchel observes, is found in France, only in the hottest parts, and is first seen as we go southwards, about Avignon, but abounds most on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Why the two varietiesCleopatraand the commonRhamnifly together we cannot fully explain; but it is possible there may be a constitutional difference between individual insects, just as we see that of two Englishmen going to a hot climate, one will brown deeply, while the complexion of the other will hardly alter, though exposed to the very same external influence.
[10]See page171.
[11]See the meaning of Chrysalis and Aurelia, on page12.