1G RARER SPECIES OP COLEOPTERA. 



you will sco whether the wings are the game height, a condition inseparable 

 from good setting. 



When this is arranged to your satisfaction, take a slip of stiff paper, 

 (E,) and pin it on the apex of the wing, as in the figure. Remove now 

 pin D, and having pushed up the under wing, fasten it by slip F. In 

 order that the abdomen may be in its proper position, fix it, as in the 

 figure, with the two pins, G and H. The antennse should also be arran- 

 ged with pins: this being done the operation is accomplished, and the 

 insect should be left there for from ten days to three weeks. However 

 intricate this "modus operandi" may appear in the description, it is in 

 reality very simple after a little experience; and, aided by the figures, I 

 trust my readers will find it so, should they feel disposed to adopt it. 

 I need scarcely remark that the boards and grooves must vary in size 

 according to the insects; but having once settled the amount of slope it 

 should be alike in all. 



Entomological pins may be obtained of Edelsten and Williams, Iron 

 Works, Birmingham, who will, upon application, forward a list of prices, 

 etc. The sizes I use are as follow: — For the large Sphingidce and Bom- 

 byces, 11 and 12; for the Ehopalocera, middle-sized Sphingidce, Bombyces, 

 Noctuce and large Geometrce, 8; for middle-sized JPyrales and Geometree, 7; 

 and for the small species of all orders, 10.* 



Should these remarks prove of any service to the readers of "The 

 Naturalist," I shall be happy, if spared, to forward occasional similar 

 notices as to catching, killing, etc. 



32, Lower Pembroke Street, Dublin. 



A LIST OF THE RARER SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA, 

 WHICH OCCUR, OR HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN 

 THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF HARLESTON, NORFOLK. 



BY J. LEEDES FOX, ESQ. 



AND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BUNGAY.f 



BY W. GARNESS, ESQ. 



[When no initial is affixed the insect has been recorded by each of the above gentlemen. 

 The initials F and G respectively intimate that it has been observed only by the person to 

 whom the said initial refers.] 



Carabus clathratus. — Once by my father, a few years ago, close to the 

 town, and is now in our collection. (G.) 



* No8. 5 and 15 are also most useful sizes. — Ed. 

 f Bungay in situated in the north of Suffolk. Harleston is just in the borders of Norfolk, 

 about seven miles west of Bungay. The latter town is about twelve miles from Lowestoft. 

 —Ed. 



