[ll] CONTENTS. 



Collecting — Continued. 



Collecting Coleoptera — Continued. Page. 



Spring collecting 44 



Myrmecopliilous and Termetophilous species 44 



Spring flights of Coleoptera 44 



Beach collecting 45 



Attracting by lights 45 



Traps 45 



Freshets 45 



Summer collecting 46 



Collecting under stones 46 



Collecting in rotten stumps and logs 46 



Collecting in dying or dead trees 47 



Beating living trees, shrubs, and vines 47 



Sweeping 47 



Collecting on mud and gravel banks 48 



Collecting aquatic beetles 49 



Collecting at the seashore and on sandy places 49 



Collecting dung beetles 49 



Night collecting 50 



Fall c(dlecting 50 



Collecting Lepidoptera 50 



Collecting the adults 50 



Collecting the early states 53 



Collecting Hemiptera .54 



Collecting Diptera 55 



Collecting Orthoptera 57 



Collecting Neuroptera 58 



Pseudoneuroptera 58 



Neuroptera 59 



Killing and preserving insects 60 



First preservation of living specimens 60 



Killing specimens 61 



Alcohol 61 



Chloroform and ether 62 



Cyanide of potassium 63 



Other agents 65 



Special directions for different orders 66 



Entomotaxy 67 



Care of pinned and mounted specimens 67 



Insect pins 67 



Preparation of specimens 68 



Pinning 69 



Mounting on points 70 



Mounting duplicates 73 



Temporary storage of specimens 74 



Envelopes for Lepidoptera, etc 74 



Directions for spreading insects 75 



A new apparatus for spreading Microlepidoptera 76 



Spreading Microlepidoptera 71 



Relaxing 79 



Inflation of the larvse of Lepidoptera 80 



Stuffing insects 82 



Dry preservation of Aphides and other soft-bodied insects 82 



