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Seventy-five Thousand Insects. 



BY ROBERT C. MILLER, BUTLER, PENNSYL- 

 VANIA. 



In the mountains of southwestern 

 Pennsylvania, near Uniontown, a rare 

 variety of beetle has been discovered, 

 over which entomologists have been 

 arguing more or less for several years- 

 The names suggested for it have rang- 

 ed all the way from plain Cychrus 

 ridingsii to Scaphinotus ridingsii mononga- 



While passing a bookseller's window 

 one day, his attention was attracted to 

 a work on our common butterflies. He 

 bought the book, read it, awoke to the 

 possibilities of the subject, equipped 

 himself with a butterfly net and a cya- 

 nide jar, and has been at it ever since. 

 He has collected throughout the United 

 States from Maine to California, and 

 has exchanged with collectors in for- 

 eign lands, until he has assembled a 



MR. T. N. BROWN AND A PART OF HIS COLLECTION OF HANDSOME MOTHS, BRIGHT-HUED 

 BUTTERFLIES AND HUGE BEETLES FROM THE TROPICS. 



hdae, and the question is still unsettled. 

 Most of my readers, I suppose, are not 

 interested in this beetle, nor in the dis- 

 cussion concerning it, but I am sure 

 every one will be interested in learning 

 something of Mr. T. N. Brown, the en- ; 

 thusiastic "insect hunter," who has the 

 reputation of being the only successful 

 collector of the Cychrus in this region. 

 Twenty-four years ago Mr. Brown 

 became interested in insect studv. 



magnificent collection of more than 

 seventy-five thousand specimens be- 

 longing to eighteen thousand different 

 species. His cabinets present a rare 

 display of elegant moths, bright-hued 

 butterflies and huge beetles from the 

 tropics, as well as the more modest 

 "ones of our northern clime. Mr. 

 Brown is thoroughly informed on every 

 branch of insect study. 



I well remember my first acquain- 



