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may include beetles, and have no hesitation in saying that the common 

 beetle that comes in at night to the dinner table is worth putting in a 

 box and posting. These are the chief things required, which any 

 member of the Society could supply in large numbers. To the budding 

 naturalist may we suggest the systematic collection of the.se groups, or 

 of flies (Dip tera) or the common bugs (Hemiptera). Supplementary 

 lists of the Hemiptera will appear, and an effort should be made to add 

 locality records from the plains. We have not suggested collecting 

 Micro-lepidoptera because this is a special business but of the ordinary 

 beetles every member could send in a hundred and more easily. We 

 may add that we shall be glad to give duplicates of every species sent 

 in to the Society, properly pinned, etc., as well as duplicates of all others 

 we can spare, and that every assistance in the way of information will be 

 supplied. 



H. MAXWELL-LEFROY. 

 Pusa, Bengal, 



