SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOLUME 103, NUMBER 6 



ON THE PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OP 



INSECTS. WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE 



TO COLEOPTERA 



BY 

 J. MANSON VALENTINE 

 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture 



(Publication 3696) 



CITY OF WASHINGTON 



PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



NOVEMBER 21, 1942 



