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amid field, forest, and wild, derives a pleasure of the purest and highest 
order. To him a day of communion among the beauties of Charnwood 
is a source of unalloyed enjoyment and inestimable profit. Such a well- 
spent holiday expands the mind, invigorates the body, and refines and 
elevates the heart. The worshipper of Nature returns home in every 
respect happier, better, wiser, with a rich store of joyous memories to 
lighten the burden of labour and care amid the struggles and conflict of 
every-day life.” 
NOTES ON COLEOPTERA—IH. 
BY THE REV. W. W. FOWLER, M.A. 
[Continued from page 94.] 
In my last paper I endeavoured to give a few hints as to collecting 
and preserving Coleoptera. I now propose to speak of the chief localities - 
in which they may be found. 
Beetles are truly ubiquitous. The woods, the fields, the ponds, the 
streams, all possess their particular species, and even the interior of 
our houses is not free. The death watch, which has caused so much 
groundless alarm to superstitious minds, and given rise to so many ghost 
stories, is nothing more than a tiny beetle of the genus Anobium that 
burrows in old furniture, and makes the little round holes with which 
we are all so well acquainted. The clicking noise is produced by the action 
of its mandibles upon the hard wood, the sound not being audible by 
day, but plainly heard in the silence of the night. 
There is, however, one great exception to the ubiquity of beetles, an 
exception which makes one hesitate to apply the term to them at all— 
none have hitherto been found in the sea. In brackish ponds a few yards 
from the sea (e. g. Lymington Salterns) they abound, but in the sea itself 
there are none. This is the more strange as vegetable life (certainly 
entirely cryptogamous) is plentiful in the sea. Crustaceans, too, are 
found in both fresh and salt water, and mollusca also abound in both. 
It seems strange that although many of the forms of animal life above 
them as well as below them are found in both salt and fresh water, the 
Insecta proper seem so carefully to avoid the sea; the explanation is 
probably to be found in their transformations. 
To give any idea of the localities in which the various species of 
beetles are found would require a volume, and it is impossible in a short 
article to do more that point out likely places, not for particular genera 
or species, but for Coleoptera generally. 
In doing this it is as well perhaps to classify them roughly under the 
particular methods and instruments of capture recommended in my last 
paper. 
The Beating Net (an old umbrella serves the purpose thoroughly, 
well.)—The best time for using this is in May and June, though in the 
early autumn many good things may be obtained. The best trees are 
