198 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



it hits the tin sides of the funnel and goes slipping 

 and sHding down into the trap through the nozzle 

 of the funnel into the bottle of alcohol where it 

 miserably perishes, as does an ant when it falls 

 into the hole of a Doodle-bug (ant lion) (Fig. 171) . 



Water, meat-eating beetles mav be collected 

 by placing in the water a dead mole, mouse or 

 somethins: of that kind, or thev mav be seined for 

 with pieces of wire netting as already described in 

 the forepart of this book, and they may often be 

 collected at night under the electric light. In fact, 

 some of them are so attracted by the electric light 

 that they have lately received the name of " electric- 

 light " bugs. 



But the handling of the dangerous poison 

 bottle and the pinning of the dead beetles is not as 

 interesting as the keeping and studying of the hve 

 ones. There is notliing so interesting as life! 

 Xevertheless we need collections, in order to label 

 and name our specimens and learn their parts, 

 and thus fix them in our minds. In the front part 

 of this book under *' Collecting " you are told how 

 to make a cyanide poison bottle, but I neglected to 

 caution the reader against making the layer over the 



