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when we have hardly been able to find a single 

 specimen of the last-named, we have encountered a 

 beetle of some species or other on nearly every 

 tree. The accompanying illustration of a Carabus 

 granulalus was photographed in the act of enjoying 



CAllABUS GKANULATUS. 



a rather late supper of "sugar" on a tree near 

 Elstree, in Hertfordshire. 



Stag beetles are said to confine their habitat to 

 the southern side of the Thames; we have met them 

 occasionally whilst walking along the lanes of Surrey. 

 The picture on p. 143 represents a male and female. 



Sometimes moths that cannot be attracted by 



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