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CHAPTER VI. 
INSTRUMENTS, ETC., REQUIRED FOR COLLECTING, 
MOUNTING, AND PRESERVING COLEOPTERA. 
The instruments required by the Coleopterist for 
capturing bis game are very few, and may be briefly 
summed up as follows : — A stout folding “umbrella ” 
net to fit in a glazed cover. This may be purchased 
at any of the dealers in objects of natural history (as, 
for instance, Cooke, of New Oxford Street, or Watkins 
and Doncaster, 36, Strand) ; if the side-pieces are made 
of metal, instead of whalebone, it will also serve for 
sweeping. 
A small x’ound sweeping-net is, however, also neces- 
sary; the framo should be a thoroughly well-made 
folding ring, fitting by a good screw into a stout stick ; 
such a frame is best obtainable at a gunsmith’s : it 
costs about three times as much if thus made to order, 
but never wears out like the ordinary more slender 
rings ; the collector should provide himself with two 
nets, one of rough calico for land work, and another 
of coarse cheese-cloth for water work : if these are 
furnished with brass rings of about three-quarters to 
one inch in diameter, sewn round a little below their 
upper edge, they can be changed in a few seconds : an 
old umbrella will serve all the purposes of a beating- 
