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BROOKLYN, OCT. 1878. No. 6. 



PRACTICAL HINTS ON COLLECTING 

 COLEOPTEXtA. 



BY II. SC'IIMELTER. 



Concluded. 



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 The last and one of the best traps to be described is the light 



trap which maybe easily constructed in the following manner. 



A lantern, combined with a reflector, is suspended outside on 

 the wall of a house or on a post, and directly under it is placed 

 a funnel, by at least several inches larger in diameter than 

 the lantern, the tube of the funnel reaching into a bottle partly 

 filled with diluted alcohol. This trap will become the more effec- 

 tive the more isolated the locality. 



A lamp placed on a table before an open window will also ans- 

 wer the purpose. 



Though living in the city I have captured quite a number of in- 

 sects in this manner, and in the country it has always proved very 

 successful. 



In concluding this article 1 hope that other practical collectors 

 will take up the subject and give us their own experience on the 

 habits of coleoptera and their capture. We do not need to visit 

 distant places in order to get new additions to our cabinets, as 

 much can be done yet by thoroughly exploring our own localities. 

 Even one so much frequented by collectors as that around New 

 York city has yielded in the last years, especially by use of the 

 sieve, a number of new species of StaphilinidcB and other families. 



