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CHAPTER VIII. 



AUGUST. 



THE young student has, I hope, gained sufficient informa- 

 tion, and experienced sufficient pleasure from the study and 

 research of the preceding months, to continue the pursuit 

 with eagerness during the remainder of the season. He is 

 now supposed capable of placing most of the insects he may 

 find, in their proper order ; in some, such as the diurnal 

 Lepidoptera, he will be able to descend as far as the species, 

 and thus to name the beautiful specimen correctly, unless 

 it is a very rare insect ; many moths will also be familiar to 

 him, and the order Coleoptera understood with regard to its 

 sectional and family peculiarities ; some insight will have 

 been gained into the habits of all classes of the insect world, 

 and the student will not be liable to make the curious 



