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Popular Science Monthly
The professional butterfly chaser uses every artifice in order to capture his winged prey.
The time-honored net is supplemented by light at night, in order to apply practically the
effect of flame on moths. An umbrella is a handy receiver for cocoons shaken from bushes
virtual impossibility of European collectors penetrating into the country; of late years, however, the Catholic missionaries who have succeeded in establishing themselves in this region have been instructed by Mr. Charles Oberthur of Rennes, France, the owner of the second largest private collection of butterflies in existence, in the capture of insects and they in turn have trained
