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as I am very particular in the mode 
of doing so, nothing contributing 
more to their appearance in the cabi- 
net than the uniformity and perfec- 
tion of the way the insects are set 
out, not only as to fresh specimens 
just caught and not set at all, but also 
as to others which may be improved 
by being set again more carefully 
and with perhaps improved pins. I 
get one of the turned match-boxes, 
everywhere easily procurable with- 
out any cost ; they are very light, and 
made of the softest deal, and being 
formed on the “tubular principle” 
will defy the utmost malice of the 
Post office under-authorities. I then 
stick the insects in the top of the 
box, which will hold a number of un- 
set fresh ones, and fill, or rather half 
fill the other part of the box with 
laurel leaves cut up small. These 
keep the insects soft if fresh, or relax 
them against the time you receive 
them, if dry, and will be the death of 
any mites, if such have been in the 
latter. I confine the leaves to the 
bottom of the box with a piece of 
crape or paper pinned over them — ■ 
all done in a minute. The sides of 
the box above them will hold more 
insects if required. I then paste a 
piece of paper over the “juncture” of 
the box, or the whole of it, and on 
this write the direction. The postage 
is, of course, according to size, and 
consequent weight, but only mode- 
rate in any case. — Rev. F. 0 . Morris. 
B.A., Nunburnholme Rectory, Yorh. 
CAPTURES. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Captures near Glasgow . — Friday 
last being a remarkably fine and 
warm day, I went out to collect at 
an old quarry hole near this city, 
after six o’clock in the evening, and 
had the good foi’tune to take, after 
two hours’ search, fourteen speci- 
mens of Trechus Lapidosus — a com- 
paratively rare insect — being one 
more than the whole number which 
I took last year after several visits. 
Delighted beyond measure at my 
success, I again visited the locality 
next morning, and before twelve 
0 clock had taken thirty-two speci- 
mens more, making in all 46 indi- 
viduals, the largest take of Lapidosus 
1 have ever heard of in this nei'di- 
O 
bourhood; or, indeed, any where else. 
Intending to have a regular day’s 
collecting, I started for Bowling (a 
small village about ten miles down 
the river), per Hellensburgh and 
Glasgow Railway, at half-past one, 
and two o’clock found me on the 
banks of the Clyde, attentively ex- 
amining a defunct rat, which had a 
suspicious looking hole in its side, 
causing me to infer that it had 
met with foul play from the burying 
beetles. 
Catching it by the tail, I gave it a 
good shake, when out dropped 
NecropTiorus Vespillo, accompanied by 
a few minor satellites, such as Silpha 
rwjosa and obscura, Catops chrysolite- 
