Paret, Anna Parmly, [from old catalog] ed · New York and London. Harper & brothers · leaf 332
dead insect in your hand, touching the wingsas little as possible, as the delicate down is easily injured,and passing a pin through its body, fasten it in the bottomof your box. Open the wings carefully, and arrange themat once while they are soft and flexible. A pin fastenedbetween the wings, not… … then, using a fine needle, spread the wings well, the frontwings being quite well forward, and the hind wings wellaway from the body. Get the antennae in position, andput two pins crossed under the abdomen so it does not fall. 316 BUTTERFLY COLLECTING Put over the wings pieces of stiff cardboard,…
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