' 01 I I • ' 1\<. B 271 



being brittle, will easily fall off; it is all removed, the 



BpecimeD maj be brushed with a fine camel's-hair brush 

 until clean. Spi [mens ti ated in these ways will m 

 ■nit oily. (Can. J :\ iii. 78. i 



Collecting and Preserving Coleoptera. 



Beetles should be pinned for the cabinel through the 

 right wing-cover i Fig. 266). They an- fonnd in even va 

 of situation : on plants, in decomposing animal and \ 

 table matter, in mushrooms, under bark of trees, under 

 stones, especially in moist and shady situations ; many are 

 found creeping on the ground, in desert and other arid 

 spots in western America. - e are attracted by can dl< 

 night : a lighted candle ma\ d in a pi< _ -- 



tube jusl funnel, the lower extremity of which ends 



in a bottle of alcohol. By us 



sium in place of the alcohol in the may 



be captured (such a trap may 1" at through a 



night for moths). A - milar apparatus has been us 

 success in collecting beetles in fung 

 over a funnel and rapped a few tin 

 to run out and drop into the mouth of the fir 

 thence into the bottle ; while others (in all parts 

 country) fly actively on I ipproached and light ;._ 



on the ground a few paces off. 



Mr. F. i.. Schanpp colli indy banks of ri'. 



large numbers of small gronnd-b by pourii . 



i ver the .-mall holes in the sand and on the ; 

 ai the edge of the water ; this causes them to rui 

 their r< by the hundred-. ( ivina and l>. 



live in holes in the sand, Omophron am! I! 

 the plants, the rest hide under the small 

 banks. 11 so i uts out pi - turf by tl 

 and places thorn in water, thus collecting both 

 their larva- and pupae. 



Burying-beetles may be attracted by pi nail pi< 



