ZOOLOGY. 933 



Most of the Lipedopterous Insects, nnless caught the fust 

 day of their coining out of the Chrysalis, are worth little ; 

 from which circumstance arises the necessity of carefully 

 watching those particular times, and of making frequent 

 excursions to have them in perfection. Butterflies aie only 

 caught on wing when the sun shines warm ; the greatest 

 number of them are found in the vicinity of woods ; some 

 delight in meadows, others in gardens, orchards, clover 

 fields, commons, and shady lanes, most of those that fre- 

 quent woods, may be taken with greater facility early in the 

 morning, a few hours after sun-rise ; at which time they 

 may be found feeding on flowers that grow by the sides of 

 woods : but when the sun acquires more strength, they fly 

 high, and so swift, as to be taken with the greatest difficulty. 



Moths are mostly quiescent during the day, and come 

 forth from their retreats at the approach of evening, soon 

 after sun-set ; like Butterflies, they inhabit a variety of 

 places, and are to be met with in the greatest num- 

 bers near woods : they may also be found during the 

 day time, by beating the hedges, particularly towards 

 evening, as at that time the least motion will put them on 

 wing. Numbers may be found during day-time, adhering to 

 the bark of trees, on the shady sides of walls and pales sur- 

 rounding gardens, and under projecting pales in held fences, 

 and may ihen be caught in the greatest perfection ; but few ily 

 during the day time, and those that do, generally so high as not 

 to be taken. It has been suggested that they may be taken 

 in the dusk of evening with a net carried before a light, in the 

 neighbourhood of woods, but those that are thus captured are 

 ^f little worthy and are very liable to injury, owing to (he 



