188 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Morn Trap.—I commenced operations several years ago 
with a trap constructed by myself on the same principle as that 
described as having been applied to the window of a room in 
America, and which I thought might be of corresponding service if 
a box or trap took the place of room. With this I did not do 
very well, and accordingly from time to time altered and added 
to the glass arrangements, until, about five years since, I 
succeeded in constructing as perfect a trap as I think could be 
devised. I had a sight some time ago of one of the ‘‘ American 
moth traps,” and found that it was somewhat similar to my 
own ; mine, however, has a ‘‘ shoot’ leading down from the four 
converging planes of glass, which leaves, as the only aperture 
of escape, a space about four inches in length by an inch and 
a quarter wide. The body of the trap is made of wood, and 
not metal, and I have at the bottom a layer of small branches 
and leaves instead of the divisions in the American one. I 
should also mention that my trap was hooked up outside the fan- 
light of hall door of my late residence, just fitting the fanlight, and 
was illuminated by a strong gas burner fixed inside the fanlight, 
having a powerful reflector behind it. I was consequently able 
to vary the amount of light as desired; it always remained clear 
and steady, and there was not the slightest fear of any accident. 
There was an unobstructed view across the River Thames for 
some fifteen miles, and to this fact I attribute much of my success. 
My record of captures during the four seasons ending Midsummer 
last, when I removed to my present home, is as follows :— 
Bombyces, 47 species ; Noctue, 139; and Geometre, 118; making 
a total of 304 different species. Of this number many were, of 
course, single captures, but the greater number were taken more 
or less freely, and in good condition as a whole, numbers of them 
being equal to bred. It was no uncommon occurrence during 
the busy time for me to box some forty or fifty specimens every 
morning that were of use to me, and to let numbers go as well. 
Of Micros I have kept no record, as I do not collect them, but 
their number was legion. ‘The enclosed portico or porch in front 
of the hall door was generally pretty freely used as a resting- 
place by those individuals that did not care to investigate further ; 
consequently I often found as many good things outside as inside 
the trap. In my present residence I have not the facilities for 
placing the trap in the same position as before, but have tried 
