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not be taken out of the saw dust afterwords
until you wish to pin them up, removal
is very apt to destroy some of their most im=
=portant characters.

Hemiptera may be retained in Alcohol, it
takes a great while to spoil them in this
way and does not obliterate their characters.
D^r,, Morris has resigned into my hands all
his Hemiptera, his time will not permit
him to investigate them very thoroughly; he
will however assist me in working them
out from time to time as he has ^the opportunity.
I was sorry there were so few Hemiptera in
the box sent by D^r,, Hoy, there were three
species of the genus Cicada, but no other kinds
of Hemiptera; every thing belonging to this
Order is badly wanted and the number of
species in this vicinity is very small; after
I have got pretty well on with the determination
of the Hemiptera I shall commence to deter=
=mine the Orthoptera and I am now getting the
works together on this subject for this purpose,