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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
quently may best be obtained in 
wet places. Stagnant ponds, there- 
fore, are generally prolific in Coleop- 
tera, and great numbers may be 
taken running on the margins, 
where the water, gradually drying 
up, leaves a broad margin of what a 
popular novelist calls “ rich, soft 
mud.” Here, on a hot day, when 
the surface is a little hardened by 
the sun, may be seen swarms of 
Homalotas , Bembidiums, Steni, etc., 
running swiftly about. This mode 
of search would, we are confident, 
repay any collector who tried it. 
Other methods will be found useful, 
of course; but we think July and 
August are the months, par ex- 
cellence, for that alluded to. 
And now for a word or two to 
Lepidopterists. Sugaring ought 
now to yield good results, of course 
provided suitable evenings be chosen, 
and such there must be. Many 
good butterflies are out, as the 
species of Colias , many of the Pohj- 
ommati, etc. Ragwort is coming 
into flower, on which the Evpithecice 
will soon appear in the larva state, 
and the Tinece are mustering strong. 
If these hints be taken we cannot 
but think success will result, but 
success is not always appreciated. 
We have heard of men possessed 
of stores of gold, who, failing to ap- 
preciate the good that was within 
their grasp, let it all go in vain 
search after what was but a chimera 
— the stone which should turn all 
to gold. Do we not sometimes fall 
into this error ? Do we not some- 
times set our hearts on one insect 
that we cannot have, and either fail 
to take, or lightly esteem, what we 
can have, because we can not gratify 
our special desire. When this is the 
case we commit the error mentioned 
in an earlier portion of this ai’ticle, 
and often attain success without 
knowing it. 
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