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quantities of specimens, chiefly Braclielytra and Necrophaga ; 

 and whenever a fungus is found it should be pulled to pieces 

 over a sheet of white paper. 



The beetle hunter should never be without either a small 

 bottle or a few pill-boxes, for, even if not out collecting, 

 something or other will be almost certain to turn up which 

 he wants, and, not having any means of bringing it home, he 

 will be obliged to leave it. 



An "Entomological Diary" ought to be kept regularly by 

 every collector. It should be ruled into four or five columns, 

 containing the date of capture, locality, number of each species 

 caught, and any particulars worth recording. Each specimen, of 

 course, as before stated, would have a number or mark attached 

 corresponding to the one in the book. 



I think I have now given the most important hints to 

 enable anyone to start on this most interesting study, and only 

 hope that these few short and imperfect notes may be the 

 means of inducing some of the many readers of this paper to 

 begin the fascinating occupation of beetle-hunting. 



2, Halkio Street West, Belgrave Square, Loudon, S.W., June 8, 1885. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, Ac. 



Notes from Cork. — Some few things which I have noted 

 here in the past three seasons appear to be sufficient!}^ curious 

 to be submitted for publication. Lycceiia icarus is said, in all 

 the books I have read, to be double-brooded, the first brood 

 in May and the next in August. This is true enough for 

 England, but here there is only one appearance, that is the 

 August one. I may say this with certainty, for in April, May 

 and June I have carefully ransacked the localities where they 

 abounded in August. Similarly Coeiionympha pampliilus is here 

 seen only during the last half of June, and then completely 

 disappears. This is not, I think, the effect of the failure of a 

 brood, A strange circumstance occurred liere on March 3rd 

 last, which was an unusually fine day. A single Pararge cegcria 

 was seen by me and my friends flitting about a woody roadside. 

 This species does not hybernate, so it must have been an 



