Setting and Mounting of Beetles 



the pin pierces and holds up close under the card, the 

 locality and date of capture of the specimen* ; thus 



Sherwood Forest, 



Notts 



coll. W. Jones 

 (and date) 



As to the final resting place of one's mounted speci- 

 mens, after they have been named the student 

 is advised before the purchase and use of a " cabinet " 

 to pin his beetles, over the specific but under the generic 

 names, in a corked store box such as lepidopterists 

 use. Lists of names, printed on one side the paper only, 

 for labelling, can be obtained from any of the entomo- 

 logical shops, the latest being that of Beare and 

 Donisthorpe, published in 1904. In each of these 

 store boxes a small piece of " carbol " to repel mites, 

 and, if the place where the store boxes are kept be at 

 all damp, a fragment of sponge saturated with strong 

 carbolic acid (Cal verts, No. 5), for the prevention 

 or eradication of mould ; should be somehow fixed by 

 pins, that they do not get loose and injure the other 

 contents of the box. 



After a number of these store boxes have been filled 

 and our student becomes a " Coleopterist," a " cabinet " 

 with a space provided and labelled for every known 

 British species of beetle (and some over for possible 

 additions) may be contemplated or indeed achieved. 



* These slips of paper of the correct size, and printed for any 

 desired locality, can be obtained very cheaply from Mr. J. H. 

 Keys, Whimple Street, Plymouth, who makes a speciality of 

 printing them for coleopterists. 



