The insect hunter's companion : being instructions for collecting & preserving butterflies, moths, beetles, bees, flies, &c.

Front matter

Foolscap for Notes.

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Pocket-book of British Birds

Contents

BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS.

The Egg, 1 Searching, 1 Boxing female Moths, 3 Pairing Insects, 3 The Larva, 3 Rearing, 3 Sleeving, 8 Collecting Larvae, 8 Beating, 8 The Bignell Tray, 9 Sweeping, 10 Searching, 11

To find Larvae by Night, 13 Hybernating Larvae, 14 Removing the Pupae, 15 Describing Larvae, 16 Parasites of Larvae, 17 Preserving Larvae, 19 The Pupa, 25 Pupa Digging, 25 Remarks, 39 Hints, 40 . Rearing, 47 Forcing, 49 The Imago, 50 Localities, 50 Net, 51 Mothing, 56 Honey-dew, 60 Sugaring, 62

Preface

This, the Fifth Edition of the ‘ Insect Hunter’s Companion ’ is completed, but, alas! the hand which penned the First Edition of this little work is stilled for ever. Never again can the kind friend, ever ready to impart information to those seeking it of him, lend a sympathetic ear to the enquiries of the tyro. It would have pleased him could he but have known that the information he put in print, written in his own pleasant and unassuming way so many years ago, is still appreciated by the embryo-entomologists who read his book.

The endeavour here to bring the information up to date in as terse a manner as possible has necessitated the re¬ writing and the addition of certain paragraphs ; but it has been sought to leave untouched as far as possible the in¬ formation as first given ; (1) because I could not improve the manner of giving ; and (2) I should wish that the memory of the late Rev. Joseph Greene should live long, not only with his contemporaries, but that it should be transmitted through many generations of Entomologists yet to come.

“ The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.”

A. B. FARN.

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PKEFACE.