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"CLAPTEAP." 



As I have before said, the large net which I have already described is by far 

 the best for all ordinary purposes; others, however, may be used with more or 

 less advantage; and a "Sweeping machine" is necessary for obtaining Water- 

 beetles, and those insects, both Coleopterous and other, which are procurable 

 among the long grass on the bank or hedge-side. It may be made as follows: — 



Get a good strong walking-stick, which will be often found useful in more 

 ways than one, and have a small round strong wire rim or hoop made to fit 

 to the end of it with a screw. To the rim attach a pretty strong canvass net 

 of any convenient size, say two feet in diameter, aud a foot and a half in 

 depth. You can procure the whole complete "for a consideration" — say some 

 five shillings. By reversing it every now and then, you get rid of all odd- 

 ments that you do not want, for "all is not fish that comes to the net." 



To catch the Purple Emperor, and other flies that frequent the tops of the 

 highest trees, you want a small round net with a handle some fifty or sixty 

 feet long. This is a very diflScult thing to accomplish, and it is but an un- 

 wieldy implement when made in the ordinary way, but I have built a castle 

 in the air in the shape of a very long fishing-rod, made of light bamboo, all 

 the upper part to be kept from bending and breaking by means of shrouds 

 or stays coming from near the top to a double cross-tree, like those from the 

 royal mast of a ii.an-of-war. An illustration will be given with the other 

 engravings, and 1 hope to find it as efi'ective in practice, as it is in theory 

 on paper. The net is to be made of very light open net-work, so as not to 

 catch tlie air. 



"WH.w's IN A NAME?" 



A GOOD deal too much in many an entomological one. Hardly two "Lists" 

 agree; and, as I can recommend no one in existence, I must briefly dismiss 

 the subject of nomenclature by expressing the hope that eftsoons we may be 

 permitted to resort to the primitive simplicity whilom enjoyed by our ento- 

 mological forefathers, and that an insect yclept by one name may be deemed 

 to be sufficiently denominated, so that the pride of nomenclators may be no 

 longer fostered by dubbing their unconscious adoptions with as many titles 

 and "family" distinctions as would suffice a Spanish grandee, to say nothing 

 of tlieir unpronounceable barbarisms, which oflend against all laws of classical 

 propriety. I have myself used 'Mr. Doubleday's catalogue, price half-a-crown, 

 published by Mr. Voorst, London. It is well printed on good strong paper, 

 and only on one side, so as to be able to be cut out for labels for cabinets, 

 and also for marking in the species possessed. 



