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the beetles and keep them from going away. Chips themselves 

 are exceedingly productive if placed in a heap ; Homalia, Phi- 

 lonthi, Trichopterygia, and many others, among them very rare 

 species, may be found by shaking them over paper ; single large 

 chips lying on the ground will sometimes be found to have good 

 beetles attached to them or lying under them ; among others may 

 be mentioned Eros Aurora found in this way at Rannoch. 



Faggots are well worth working : these again must be 

 comparatively fresh ; an old faggot is of very little use, at least I 

 have never found one that produced much worth having, while 

 faggots that have been cut only a short time and laid on th e 

 ground will often be found to swarm with insects. I remember 

 shaking some over a sheet in Sherwood Forest and taking quantities 

 of things. Lathridius nodifer of course swarmed, accompanied 

 by one or two of the ia,YeY LatJiridii, Ejniraa parvida, Trichopteryx 

 fascicularis, and other species. Mr. Matthews, on one occasion, 

 took the rare Trichopteryx ohsccsna in the same way. From 

 faggot-stacks good things like Cryphalus fagi, and others, may 

 occasionally be obtained. Trachodes hispidus was found in 

 abundance in faggots near Leicester, and I feel certain that it 

 must have been from faggots that Turner obtained such numbers 

 of Cryphalus tilice near Lincoln ; the tree is called " bass " by 

 the natives, and is a species of Tilia, but is more of a shrub 

 than a tree, with the growth of a large hazel ; there is no trunk 

 or bark for a Cryphalus to bore in. I have a faggot at present 

 concealed in the wood where I believe he found it, and hope to 

 turn up this beetle again, though hitherto I have been unsuc- 

 cessful. 



Dry bramble-sticks are very profitable, and in fact dry 

 sticks of any kind. Under dry sticks or faggots laid down in a 

 wood to make a passable road, the late Mr. Garneys once found 

 Stilicus fragilis in abundance ; Dr. Power and Mr. Fitch shook 

 this same species out of some dry oak-faggots in a wood near 

 Dorking. Hedohia imperialis, Pogonochcrus dentatus, and other 

 species, may be beaten out of dry brambles or hawthorn hedges. 

 The very rare Tropideres niveirostris has been taken by beating 

 dry sticks ; and from collected dry twigs Mr. Plant, of Leicester, 

 once bred Tropideres sepicola. We are, however, now trenching 

 upon the subject of wood-collecting proper, which will be fully 

 treated of in the next paper. 



The School House, Lincoln, 9th November, 1882. 



