[May 1883. BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. VI. 11 
Hints for raising coleopterous Larve. 
By F. G. Schaupp. 
I never had a book with an explanatory guide of how to raise 
coleopterous larve and I think. that is just the fundamental necessity. By 
using his own judgement one will loose lots of fine larvae before he gets 
the secret. In the following lines I shall communicate my experiences in 
a somewhat systematic manner and | invite all those who work in the same 
field to publish in our Bulletin their results. 
Commonly I took empty tomatoe- or fruit-tinboxes, have the 
upper margin cut smooth and covered by fine wire-screen, fastened by a 
cord or tin-ring. 
Cicindelee. Only one larvae can be raised in one box, as they crawl 
out at night-time and attack each other. Fill the box half with moist 
ground ; press it oblique, make a small hole with the tip of a pen-holder 
and the larva will in two minutes have taken possession of the hole for 
its residence. i 
Feed daily once with decapitated woodboring larvee,* fleshy cater- 
pillars, flies, veal, beef etc. but de very careful fo remove the remnants or 
the fungus arising from the decaying matter, which is extremely noxious 
to the larvae will kill them in a few days. Moisten the earth twice or 
only once a week, according the moisture of the air, but be very careful 
not to make earth too wet, for this would favour the growth of lice also 
very dangerous to larve. 
Cover the box with tin cloth and place it into a dark closet or large 
box, for else the small flies or inchneumons will become fatal. Larvee 
are found on the roadside, but more commonly on sloping banks at a 
little distance from the place where the imagines fly around, as I did 
describe more fully Bull. vol. II, 23. The larve will remain feeding 
during four to five weeks and the pupz require for their developement 
about ten days. 
NN — —— 
Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. 
Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by J. L. Leconte and George H. Horn, 
Washington 1833. — We just received the new classification and express in the name 
of the Coleopterists of the U. S. our sincerest thanks to the authors. It would be carry- 
ing water into the ocean to speak a word of the excellency of this work, indispensable 
to every collector, the names Leconte and Horn speak for it. 
“The book is printed on fine paper. adorned with excellent woodcuts, has about 
600 pages with an appendage by S. Henshaw containing a list of synoptic papers and 
is for sale by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. REGS: 
* Often the woodborers won the victory over the Cicindelidae therefore they 
have to be beheaded. 
