Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ON COLLECTING AND MOUNTING COLEOPTERA. By E. C. HE present space atmy disposal beingnecessarily limited,I can only indi-cate the habitsand haunts of ourColeopterous Faunain a very superficialway; and, unfor-tunately, it is precisely in thecase of this order of insects,both on account of its nu-merical extent (containing asit does upwards of 3,000 re-corded species in the BritishIsles), and the very variedand mostly light - shunningproclivities of its members,that a considerabl
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . ON COLLECTING AND MOUNTING COLEOPTERA. By E. C. HE present space atmy disposal beingnecessarily limited,I can only indi-cate the habitsand haunts of ourColeopterous Faunain a very superficialway; and, unfor-tunately, it is precisely in thecase of this order of insects,both on account of its nu-merical extent (containing asit does upwards of 3,000 re-corded species in the BritishIsles), and the very variedand mostly light - shunningproclivities of its members,that a considerable amountof specific knowledge on thosepoints is required before thecollector can expect to be atall successful. Moreover, itis of the greatest importancethat the student should be enabled to detect hiscaptures specifically at the time; which to dorequires acute vision and a good memory—a com-bination not developed in all men. It is to theseconsiderations that I attribute the paucity of rareor new species among the beetles that occur tobeginners. Luckily, however, the field of obser-vation is so large, the structural details of thespecies so varied, and (as y
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