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ners alluded to, and therefore traps have to be laid for them, or 

 other means employed to force them to leave their hiding places. 



I will cite in the following a number of traps and methods of 

 capture known to me, but as almost every collector has some 

 method of his own, often a jealously guarded secret, it will be far 

 from exhausting this topic. 



For the capture of carrion beetles a method has been described 

 in a previous number, but the bait there recommended viz: refuse 

 meat, will only attract a very limited number of species, although 

 it is of all of these methods, causing without exception a great dis- 

 comfort to our nasal organ, the least objectionable. 



Carrion of different kinds of animals will attract different spe- 

 cies of insects. Some of these only feed on the flesh, while others 

 take to the skin and hair or feathers of the carrion; and others a- 

 gain make their appearance only after the skeleton is exposed. 



In baiting for Necrophoridce different sorts of bait, i e., mamma- 

 lia, birds, reptiles, should be laid and the inspection not discontin- 

 ued after the flesh has disappeared, as then only the most interes- 

 ting and rare species can be captured. By a piece of cord fasten- 

 ed to it the carrion can be lifted and slightly shaken over a bag 

 into which the insects will drop. Smaller bait may be enclosed 

 in a wide mouthed bottle, dug up to the mouth in the earth. Some 

 leaves should be placed on the bottom of it to offer hiding places and 

 to prevent the captured insects from making war against each other. 

 Old cheese is said to be a good bait. 



Another way of baiting is "sugaring." A mixture of sour beer 

 and molasses in equal parts, flavoured with a little brandy, is an ex- 

 cellent bait applied to boards, stumps or trunks of trees ; it will 

 attract, especially in the evening, besides numbers of Lepidoptera 

 also many Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Elateridae and others. 



Heaps of weeds, if left to rot will attract numbers of insects which 

 can be captured by sifting the weeds from time to time. 



Fungi may be made use of in the same manner to great advant- 

 age. 



Blowing tobacco smoke into the crevices of wood, fence posts etc., 

 will be effective in driving out the insects hiding therein. 



(To be cotinued.) 



Relating to the species ennumerated in Mess. Hubbard's and Schwarz's 

 list of Fla. Coleoptera (see this No. of Bull. p. 39) we can add : Cychrus ele- 

 vatus, Fab. ; Dicaelus furvus. Say. ; Geotrypes retusus, Lee, and Black- 

 burnii, Fab. ; Trox monachus, Hbst. ; Laehnosterna crenulata, Froehl. ; 

 Macrodactylus angustatus, Beauv. ; Klater rubricollis, Hbst. ; Callichroraa 

 splendidum [red var.], Lee. ; Strangalia bicolor, Swed. ; Cryptocephalus 

 congestus, Fab., and confluens, Say. ; Helops undulatus, Lee ; etc., etc. 



