THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No -98.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1858. [Price'!*?. 
BEETLES FOR TOURISTS. 
A tourist when about to start thinks 
how few things he can possibly put into 
his knapsack, and we do not wish to add 
much to his requisites. It is only 
necessary to place a bottle containing 
some cut laurel leaves into your coat 
pocket, and all the beetles you put into 
this will not only keep until you get 
time to set them on your return home, 
but be all the better for keeping, that 
is, they will spread out without any 
trouble. The only exceptions to this 
are the Staphylinidce and other soft- 
bodied and fragile creatures, which 
should be set as soon as they are dead ; 
and so it will save you some time if 
instead of one bottle you have two, and 
separate your captures into hard and 
soft as you take them. You can easily 
manage, on wet days and when taking 
your ease at your inn (if you have put 
into your knapsack a few pieces of card, 
a bottle of gum and a small col- 
lecting-box), to spread out the delicate 
forms. 
So much apparatus as we have men- 
tioned, and no more, is absolutely 
necessary for the Coleopterist on his 
holiday tour. We speak of beginners, 
and those who have never tried their 
hand at beetles, but an old collector 
would not be satisfied unless he had a 
sweeping-net and a water-net for the 
streams and lakes. You will probably 
find enough employment without these, 
for while trudging over the moors if 
you turn over the stones, examine the 
tufts of grass over a newspaper, search 
the margins of streams and pools and 
look at the flowers there or at the road- 
sides, it is certain that you will find 
many good things that will afterwards 
set you thinking to find out what they 
are, and you will also have the greatest 
of all a naturalist’s pleasures — the 
ability to add something to the col- 
lection of your friends. 
Lastly, do not neglect to take the 
little ones ; it is precisely among them 
that you are most likely to discover a 
new species; if you leave them, in future 
time when you become a regular 
Coleopterist (as we have no doubt some 
of you will), it will be with a constantly 
recurring regret that you will remember 
the opportunity you had in the year 
1858 of taking some rarities, and which 
opportunity having been thrown away 
never recurred. 
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