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to their own personal use ; they will continue to come 

 for several hours after sunset. Windy or damp 

 evenings, with little moonlight, are the best nights to 

 sugar, as then moths fly low. 



Numbers of moths that will not come to sugar are 

 attracted by light ; one or two candles or a bull's-eye 

 lantern, placed at an open window, will draw them 

 within its influence, when, upon entering the room at 

 the open window, they will immediately mount to the 

 ceiling, where they may easily be captured with a net. 



Smoke is also a most excellent method of obtaining 

 insects: by saturating a weedy bank or thick bush with 

 the smoke of tobacco, rags, or brown paper, the in- 

 sects concealed therein will come creeping out in a 

 semi-sluggish state, and may then be easily captured in 

 pill-boxes. The best way to apply smoke is with the 

 " patent fumigating bellows" (which may be obtained 

 of most ironmongers, or at the principal seed shops). 

 Having put into the chamber of the bellows your 

 tobacco, rags or brown paper, and lit them, close the 

 chamber, and, upon turning the handle upon the top of 

 the bellows, a blast will be produced which will drive 

 out the smoke at the nosle amongst the herbage with 

 considerable force; the instrument is very compact, 

 and may be carried in a moderate-sized pocket. Gele- 

 chia jnctella and Peronea permutana have been ob- 

 tained by this method on Barnes Common. 



Having now enumerated the methods employed to 

 capture such insects as elude our pursuit by the or- 

 dinary methods, we will take a stroll together, and 

 the locality to which I purpose taking you is Sander- 

 stead and its neighbourhood. 



