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Editors 

 Samuel E. Cassino, 

 Louis W. Swett 



JUN 2 1919 



Publisher 

 Samuel E. Cassino 

 Salem, Mass. 



Vol. II 



Aug. 25, 1918 



No. 8 



Notes on Collecting in Florida 



By J. G. Bonniwell 



There are many features of collecting in Florida 

 that are entirely unlike those in the North and other 

 sections of the country. For instance sugarnig for 

 moths. This is a standby method of obtammg quan- 

 tities of lepidoptera in other parts of the United 

 States but it has been my experience, coupled with 

 that of many others, that sugaring in Florida is a 

 failure. 1 have tried dozens of different mixtures and 

 have yet to hnd one that will repay a collector for 

 his time, much less his trouble. 



The most successful method that I have found to 

 collect moths in this warm part of the country is by 

 light trap. 1 use a powerful gasoline gas-mantle 

 lamp that is wind and rain proof. My method is 

 not original as I am indebted to Messrs. Denton 

 Bros, for the suggestion. I use a single large flat 

 pan (or a set of four smaller ones) about thirty 

 inches square and three or four inches deep. In 

 this I put a couple of inches of w-ater and pour on 

 this sufficient coaloil so as to form a thin film. The 

 lamp, which burns two whole nights with one filling, 

 I set in the center of this pan, using a block of 

 wood or any convenient object as a rest for it. The 



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