Produced by Chris Curnow, Jens Nordmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's Notes: The original spelling and minor inconsistencies in the spelling and formatting have been maintained. Corrections applied to the original text have been listed at the end of the text. The ligature oe and OE has been marked as [oe] and [OE]. Formatting: Text in italics has been marked with underscores (_text_) and spaced text with equal signs (=text=). SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS. BY C. V. RILEY, M. A., PH. D., _Honorary Curator of the Department of Insects, U. S. National Museum._ Part F of Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 39 (with one plate). WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1892. =CONTENTS.= Page. INTRODUCTORY 3 MANUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS 5 CHARACTERISTICS OF INSECTS 5 SCOPE AND IMPORTANCE OF ENTOMOLOGY 6 CLASSIFICATION OF HEXAPODS 8 Order Hymenoptera 12 Order Coleoptera 14 Order Lepidoptera 16 Order Hemiptera 17 Suborder Thysanoptera 18 Order Diptera 19 Suborder Aphaniptera 20 Order Orthoptera 21 Suborder Dermaptera 22 Order Neuroptera 22 Suborder Trichoptera 23 Suborder Mecoptera 23 Suborder Neuroptera 23 Suborder Platyptera 24 Suborder Plecoptera 25 Suborder Odonata 25 Suborder Ephemeroptera 25 Suborder Thysanura 26