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Pyralids in the daytime ; but, while smaller, they are easier to 

 see, as they usually alight on the upper side of a leaf. 



The majority of Tiueids keep themselves well hidden during 

 the daylight hours, and only come out for their natural flight 

 about the time the sun goes down ; and a good day's work can 

 be done during this twilight hour, for a half hour before 

 sunset until too dark to see. Back of my home, in the Orange 

 Mountains, in a favorable spot in the open woods, surrounded 

 by low shrubbery and weeds, I have often caught one hundred 

 and more Tineids during this hour, without moving half a 

 dozen steps from one spot. This time of day also seems to be 

 the time of natural flight of a good many species of Tortricids, 

 especially the earliest warm spring days in March and April, 

 and the Indian Summer days late in the fall, November and 

 December. Many species of Tortricids can be taken in abund- 

 ance at these seasons that were before rare and almost un- 

 known. On March i4th last year I spent an afternoon in the 

 woods, and only caught three or four specimens up to five 

 o'clock, but from then until dark I secured several dozen. 

 November 3d I started collecting at ten in the morning and at 

 four-thirty in the afternoon had perhaps two dozen well-earned 

 specimens ; but then the flight began, and until it was too dark 

 to see I caught them just as fast as I could bottle them, more 

 than one hundred specimens, and all very good ones. 



The trunks of trees should be carefully examined in the 

 daytime ; many a good Tineid or Tortricid will be found in 

 the crevices of the bark, and the bottle can be employed di- 

 rectly on the moth, without the use of the net. 



L-ight in an open window or the electric lights in front of 

 stores are also very attractive to nearly all moths. Sugaring 

 does not produce satisfactory results with the micros. I can- 

 not urge too strongly the more general use of a Moth Trap by 

 all collectors who are located in the country or suburbs, where 

 it can be placed so that the light shines over a patch of weeds 

 or an overgrown thicket, and where it will be safe from boys 

 who think it a joke to break the glass ; as it works while we 

 sleep. The trap I have had the most success with is an adap- 

 tation of one described in vol. vi of the Bulletin of the Brook- 



