108 INSECTS ABROAD. 



especially to English entomologists, who are always searching 

 for the best means of killing as quickly and with as little pain 

 as possible, the insects which they need for the purposes ot 

 science. The idea of pinning living Beetles, and then being 

 surprised to find that they died in three or four hours, would 

 never have occurred to the least humane of our entomologists. 

 I can but wonder how long those Beetles might have lived 

 which did not die within four hours of the " operation." 



