130 COMMON BRITISH INSECTS. 



the cotton wool. Now, stick the point of a needle 

 perpendicularly into the setting-board, and pass the eye 

 into the abdomen through the same hole, so as to 

 prevent it from losing shape by lying down. Set the 

 other half of the Beetle independently, and, when both 

 parts are quite dry, join them with a tiny drop of 

 coaguline. If this be properly done, there will not be 

 the slightest mark of any junction, and the specimen 

 will always look as well as it did when living, and 

 preserve its soft, rounded contour. 



