128 HINTS TO INSECT COLLECTORS, 



inches in circuraferenco, and rises nearly perpendicular (from A to B) to 

 the height of five feet six inches; after which the top turns in nearly a 

 horizontal direction, and due east, (from B to 0,) the additional length of 

 thirty feet six inches. I think it is not exposed more to west winds than 

 to those from the east, as one is as prevalent as the other. 



The different sorts of trees in which this tendency of the top towards 

 the east is to be observed, are the ash, oak, larch, birch, hawthorn, and some 

 others. I remember a larch, which grew on the west side of a highway, 

 eight yards wide, the top of which reached to a perpendicular line drawn 

 from the east side of the road. * 



Richard Clapham. 



Austwick Hall, near Settle, Yorkshire, Nov. 27th., 18o5. 



HINTS TO INSECT COLLECTOES. 



BY TAXUS. 

 ( Concluded from page 111.) 



A FEW words must suffice for the best localities for insects. For beetles 

 place a white cloth on the grass in a wooded glade in the sun, or put a 

 lantern on it in a dark night; sink jars containing a bit of flesh in the 

 earth; sweep herbage by day, and by night put the contents of the net 

 into a little bag; collect moss and lichens in winter, and place them on 

 a sheet of white paper in a uarm room; examine the bark of trees, 

 rotten wood, flowers, mushrooms, etc., and all animal and vegetable sub- 

 stances going to decay. Look below planks and stones, on land and in the 

 water, and on wall tops; examine the margins of pools, rivers, and wet places, 

 especially in the spring, stamping violently on the ground; also aquatic 

 vegetation, and drag the pools. Search everywhere and at all seasons; 

 even in mid- winter pools may be dragged, and moss and rotten trees 

 broken up and carried home. 



Moths are attracted by a lantern carried before the collector in woods, 

 by lights in a room, by empty bee-hives and sugar casks, by a mixture 

 of one pound of brown sugar boiled to a syrup in beer, and flavoured with 

 a glass of rum; this daubed into trees growing on the margin of a wood, 

 about the height of the eye, with a sixpenny paint-brush, marking the 

 trees with chalk. A lantern, which may cost four shillings, besides two 

 leather straps to carry it, and leave the hands free to secure the intoxicated 

 moths at the sugar by placing a pill-box over the insect and gently moving 

 the box until the former creeps in. The flowers of the honeysuckle, sallow, 

 ivy, and other wild and garden flowers, are very attractive from March 

 to November. Light and sugaring are most attractive in dark mild weather. 



