WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST- 
“ ENTOMA QIJIDQUID AGUNT NOSTRI EST FARRAGO LI BELLI.” 
No. 21.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, L§63. [Price 2d. 
COLEOPTESA, 
Continued. 
ast we referred in a 
article to this inter- 
esting group we did little more than 
Bet before our readers some of the 
difficulties that have to be encountered 
in its study. This week, we propose 
to throw out a few hints to those who 
are not discouraged from making an 
attempt to form a collection of Col- 
coptera, and gain some knowledge of 
their species and habits, as to what 
means they should pursue to achieve 
the object desired. 
In No. 4 of the “Entomologist” 
Mr. Sharp, of London, gives some 
directions for killing and setting Col- 
eoptera, and we so cordially agree 
with what he there says, that, on 
this point, we will merely refer to 
his remarks. We cannot however re- 
frain Irom saying, that one of the 
greatest advantages, which the Col- 
eop>tera possess over other orders of 
insects consists in the ease with which 
they are killed. The nursery rhyme 
with which most of our readers are, 
probably, acquainted, seems to give to 
them the same meed of praise, when 
it tells us. 
“ A cruel man a beetle caught, 
“ And to the wall him pinned — o 
“ Thus spake the beetle to the crowd, 
“ Although stuck up, I am not proud, 
“ And his soul flew out of the window.” 
Our task then, in the present ar- 
ticle, is to note a few of the principal 
modes of capture among Coleoptera, 
remarking what particular species or 
groups, may be secured in each 
manner. 
At present, while they, like most * 
other insects, are securely (?) sleep- 
ing in their winter quarters, the 
means to be employed are necessarily 
limited, ' but by no means unproduc- 
tive of specimens. 
The best ways are, most un 
doubtedly, digging at the roots of 
trees, and breaking off the loose bark 
thereon. Ry these modes many cap- 
tures will be made. In fact it is by 
no means unusual to find some loose 
crumbled sod at the foot of an oak or 
poplar, perfectly alive with beetles, 
and often, on turning up such a one 
the odour is so strong as to be in it- 
self an absolute proof of the presence 
of a large nest of these insects. We 
have noticed that this is remarkably 
the case with those two abundant 
