METHODS OF PACKTNCi BEETLES FOI{ Sllll'MENT. 



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and also because in many of tlio sliipments sawdust was used instead 

 of moss, and proved unsuital)lo for the purpose. At the dose of tliat 

 year instructions were sent tliat in the future wet moss should be 

 })laced in the match boxes with the beetles, and since tliat time the 

 rate of mortality has been reduced. In 1908 only 14 per cent and 

 in 1909 9 i)er cent of the specimens of C. sycopJianta were dead wlien 

 received. 



Nearly all the material above mentioned was shipi)ed l)y Miss Kuhl. 

 In 1909, however, a small number of larva) of C. sycoplianta was 

 received in boxes of i)arasitized J2;ipsy moth caterpillars from M. Ober- 

 thiir and M. Dillon in collections made in France. Lots sent by the 

 former were shipped from C'harroux and those by the latter from 

 Hyeres. 



In 1910 all the specimens wci-c rocoivod from Miss Kulil, and 27 



Fig. 4. — Same box as infif,'uiu3, witli lovrrremovfd to show method of packing Calosoma beetles. 

 Each match box coiUuins a single beetle and a small quantity of wet sphagnum moss. 

 (Original.) 



per cent mortality resulted. Table II shows the entire numbers of 

 adult C. sycophanta, their condition on receipt, and the percentage of 

 mortality. 



Table II. — Number of specimens of Calosoma sycophanta skipped into MassachiLsetts, 

 1905 to 1910, number received alive, and percentage of mortality. 



