SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOLUME 103, NUMBER 6 



ON THE PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF 



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 



