The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history, etc / [Anon].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The naturalist's and traveller's companion, containing instructions for discovering and preserving objects of natural history, etc / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![• \ [ 2 ] however, give direftions under general names, where to find and how to catch each kind; and fuch as require more particular information upon this fubjedt, may confult an ingenious treatife, which has appeared fince the firft publication of this, (a) under the title of Inftruttions for coh letting and preferring Infetts, by W. Curtis (b). I.The firft great clafs cailed beetles(c), are found in and under the dung (d) of animals, efpecially of cows, horfes, and ftieep: many of them make holes under the dung three or four inches deep; it will therefore be neceflary to have an iron fpade to dig them out, when in fearch of this tribe of infedts. Some (<?) are found in rotten and half decayed t> o vrood, and under the decayed bark of trees; on the carcafes (f) of animals that have been dead four or five days; on moift bones that have been gnawed by dogs or other animals; on flowers having a foetid fmeli; and on feveral kinds v * (a) Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. XLI. 1771, page 6. It may be neceifary to obferve, that the following chiles and genera of infefts are made after the Linnaean fyltem. (b) See alfo Chaeffer Elementa Entomologica; Foriler’s catalogue of the animals of North America. (r) COLE OPT ERA. (d) Scarabasus, chafer. D^r- meites, leather-eater. Hiller, mimick-beetle. Staphylinus, roue-beetle. (<?) Lucanus, Jlag-beetle. Cerambyx, capricorn- beetle. Dermeites, (/) Hiiler, Silpha, carrion-beetle. Staphylinus, \ (g) Byrrhus,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515555_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
