BEARINQ BEBTL1 - 



grubs of \\ L-borers, " Oarabus, Chiasmus, and Galerita 



are fed with veal, and it is very interesting to lo< k at the 

 twelve Carabus Umbatus (six males and six females) while 

 devouring the meat, tearing and Lifting it. .-ill standing 

 around it like the members of a poultry-yard around ;i 

 trough."* He bred Dicwlus dilatatus from the larvae 

 by placing them in a bottle half filled with dry earth, wet- 

 ting it daily with three or four drops of water. 



All the materials put in the cage, \i/.. sand, earth, rotten 

 wood, moss, etc., should be baked or passed through a 

 hath of boiling water to destroy any insect-life (eggs or 

 minute larva) that mighl be present, and thus lead tq mis- 

 takes or resuli in injury to the creatures being bred. When 

 a sufficient Dumber of eggs are laid in the breeding-box 

 the beetli - should be removed. The beetles, while in con- 

 finement, should be kept during the day in a dark. 

 place, and their cage should be placed during night before 

 the window in the open air, ( icindelae of course excepted. 

 The Larvae of the latter must be reared sil theyother- 



wise would destroy one another. Also cover the box with 

 tin cloth and place it in a dark closet or large box, or 

 tlies and ichneumons will destroy them. The larva 

 for four or five weeks, while the pupa' require for their 

 development about ten days. The best food for Cicin 

 Larvae i- beheaded wood-boring grubs, which will not bite. 

 All remnant- of Uu«\ should he carefully removed from the 

 breeding-box, as any decaying matter i- harmful. The 

 earth should lie moistened only once or twice a week. 



In raising Carabids, place earth in the cage in which the 

 young may burrow for protection from each otlu r. A few 

 days after mating the males should be removed, and a 

 day.- later still the females should he put m tmotlx 



* Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomologii - . i. 2. Mr. 



Schaupp suggests thai to procure food for carnivorous Ian 

 piece of meal be left for a while in tin cagi with flesh-flies di pi 

 of their wings ; these will lay eggs, and the i -will at 



hatch ami Berve as food for the larval beetles. 



