Manual of the Practical Naturalist Or Directions for Collecting Preparing An
Manual of the Practical Naturalist Or Directions for Collecting Preparing An
J E John Ellor Taylor
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Those kinds only with transparent skins will require this preparation, as the L. 4, macu- lata, &c. Some of the foreign insects of those orders ap- pear to the greatest advantage in spirit of wine, but whenever the usual method will suffice, it should be preferred. They are all to be stuck through the thorax, and observe always to put the pin so far through, that when it is stuck near a quarter of an inch into the cork the feet of the insect may only touch the surface. The wings are to be displ...ayed with cramps as usual. PRACTICAL NATURALIST. 181 APTEROUS INSECTS. Many kinds may be preserved in spirits, or in the same manner as coleopterous and other in- sects ; but among those we can include very few, if any, of that extensive genus aranea (spiders), no method having been hitherto discovered where- by they may be preserved in their natural colours, for however beautiful they may be when alive, their bodies shrivel and their tints become an obscure brown, soon after death ; and as the moist- ure exhales, the size of the body diminishes, very little more than the skin of it remaining when the creature is sufficiently dry to be placed in the cabinet.
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