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NOTES 



ON 



THE COLLECTING AND PRESERVING 



OF 



COLEOPTERA. 

 By T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. 



To offer suggestions, to the incipient Coleopterist, of such 

 a general and practical character as shall enable him, whilst 

 in pursuit of his objects, to realize as far as may be possible 

 the old saying (albeit applied to a different subject) of 

 Delectant domi, non impediunt foris ; 



or to point out the various localities to which his attention 

 should be turned, and in which his labours are the most cer- 

 tain to be crowned with success, is no easy task ; and yet, 

 without some tolerably definite instructions on these heads, 

 much time and many valuable opportunities are apt to be 

 lost. To attempt to indicate, however, the locus quo of the 

 numerous families which compose the Coleopterous world 

 would, in a limited space, be absurd, seeing that almost every 

 spot, and combination of circumstances, has its own tale to 

 tell. The collector, indeed, who would turn his researches 

 to the best account, must be on the qui vive everywhere. 

 Nevertheless, there arc unquestionably certain places and 

 conditions which experience has shown to be par excellence 

 adapted to his purpose, and of these we will now speak. 



