OF COLLECTING INSECTS. 
Before proceeding to the subject of collecting 
in the different seasons, a few preliminary 
remarks may not be out of place. The 
young collector in his first essays is generally 
so full of eagerness to catch every thing and 
ramble everywhere, that he often defeats his 
own purpose. He will find it conduce much 
more to his success both in collecting and in 
the knowledge of insects, if he confine himself 
to a single locality, and to one or two groups 
only at a time. For instance, let him the first 
year confine his entire attention to collecting 
the scale beetles {CicindelidcE) , ground beetles 
( Carabidce), and aquatic beetles {Dyticidm, &c.) 
The second year he may take up the dung 
beetles {GeotrupidcB Aphodiidce, &c.), carrion 
beetles {^SilphidcB) and Staphylinidce, chiefly 
found in dung and dead animals. Another 
year the CurculionidcB , and another the minute 
beetles obtained by sweeping the herbage. 
