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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[April, '04 



cigar-box lid, and carefully pour plaster of paris around it 

 until all the space is filled ; after the plaster hardens, the 

 cigar-box lid can be pulled off and thrown away. 



Then, just before dark, remove the solid cap from the jar — 

 which should be tightly stoppered all day to regain its 

 strength — and screw it up into place and, after lighting the 

 lamp and watching it awhile to see that it does not smoke, it 



is ready to work all night. 



With this trap, in my 

 home locality, I usually 

 caught from fifty to three 

 hundred specimens each 

 night, from April to No- 

 vember, of which sev- 

 enty-five per cent, w^ere 

 Tortricids and Tineids. 



Beetles do not seem to 

 be particularly attracted, 

 which is very fortunate, 

 as an able-bodied speci- 

 men would work havoc 

 before he succumbed. 



I neglected to say that 

 all of the inside of the 

 trap should be painted 

 with several coats of good 

 white paint, and a sil- 

 vered-glass reflector put 

 on the door back of the lamp ; both add to the glare and 

 attractiveness. For protection the outside should be painted 

 dark green. 



A very much smaller and simpler trap is shown in section at 

 Fig. 16. But it will require the services of a tinsmith, as it is 

 nearly entirely made of that material. This is the design per- 

 fected by my good friends in West Brighton, Pa., F. A. and 

 Harry D. Merrick, and to them I am indebted for the sketch 

 and the following description. The total length is fifteen 

 inches, by eight inches wide and eight inches from top to 



