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will soon find that he can easily " spot" a bug when he sees 

 it. It is chiefly with beetles that bugs are likely to be 

 confounded, but when it is remembered that beetles have 

 jaws, and bugs have a rostrum or sucking tube which is 

 hinged at the base and tucked under the breast, there ought 

 to be no difficulty in making out the order. 



As regards apparatus. Every collector of Lepidoptera is 

 already furnished with the greater part of it. A net for 

 sweeping low herbage, and an umbrella or wide-mouthed net 

 for beating bushes and trees into, is already probably in the 

 possession of every collector. For aquatic species a water 

 net must be made or bought. 



To kill and carry his captures, let the collector provide 

 himself with one or more wide-mouthed bottles, such as used 

 by Coleopterists. These may be furnished with cyanide of 

 potassium, secured by plaster of Paris (as in the common killing 

 bottle), and some crumpled pieces of paper or a little sawdust 

 (with the dust sifted out of it), to absorb any moisture from the 

 captured specimens. Or the bottle may be provided with 

 some crushed laurel leaves, or crumpled pieces of paper and 

 a little benzoline. On getting home, the specimens should 

 be turned out and set according to the fancy of the collector. 

 That is to say, he may set them in the British way of setting 

 beetles, viz., fasten them to cardboard with gum tragacanth, 

 setting out the legs and antennae, and taking care not to mess 

 the specimens ; or he may pin the larger beasts, and stick 

 down the smaller ones to cardboard by a small drop of (the 

 so-called) " liquid glue," placing the legs and antennae 

 alongside of the body, but not sticking them down. This is 

 the Continental method, and takes much less lime, but the 

 specimens do not look so well as those set well by the first 

 method. Finally, he may name his specimens with the 

 assistance of Messrs. Douglas and Scott's ' British Hemip- 

 tera,' published by the Ray Society, or Mr. E. Saunders' 

 more recent ' Synopsis,' just published in the 'Transactions 

 of the Entomological Society.' 



1 need not say anything to the Coleopterist regai'ding the 

 localities in which to look for Hemiptera, for where he finds 

 beetles he will very frequently find bugs. A few words to 

 the Lepidopterist may, however, not come amiss. Briefly, 

 then, let him beat trees and bushes, sweep low herbage, and 



