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from earvvigs, when sugaring for moths. My own experience 

 this year fully corroborates bis assertions. All tbroiigb tbe 

 season earwigs bave been very abundant, and tbe ensnaring 

 syrup, spread for tbe special benefit (?) of niotbs, brings tbera 

 together in swarms. Amongst other insects also attracted, 

 but not desired, I have found numerous individuals of a long- 

 legged spider, unknown to me by name ; also wood-lice, and, 

 rather to my sm'prise, the larvas of Mamestra Persicariae and 

 Ai'ctia lubricipeda. These latter I at first supposed were there 

 by accident, till I found them engaged in imbibing the com- 

 pound, cautiously, however, avoiding the immersion of their 

 feet or claspers in it. The capture of most of the Geometrae 

 which resort to sugar is attended with some difficulty; if one 

 can manage to " box " them with the left hand, it is possible, 

 by having a small net in the right hand, to secure some of 

 those that fly off as the tree is approached. — J. R. S. Clifford. 



64. Enormous Namher of Flies killed by the Fly-papers. 

 — I noticed in the ' Glasgow Morning Journal' the following 

 paragraph, and, thinking it might prove interesting to some 

 of your readers, I copied it, and have taken the liberty of 

 sending it to you : — " A grocer in Calhcart Street, being an- 

 noyed at the superabundance of the fly tribe in his shop, and 

 being of a speculative turn of mind, invested in one of 

 Mather's halfpenny fly-papers, which he placed in the win- 

 dow, on a plate and a little water. After it had lain thus for 

 a week, on the usual turn over of the window on Wednesday 

 afternoon, an immense number of dead flies were collected 

 from it. Astonished at the result, curiosity led the young 

 man to put them in the scale, when he found their combined 

 weight to be two ounces and a quarter. He thereafter tried 

 two drams weight, and on counting them found there were 

 600 in it. Thus upon calculation it appeared that the two 

 ounces and a quarter would contain 10,800 dead flies. Be- 

 sides these, it is considered that nearly half as many more 

 would be dusted out of the window during the week, making 

 a grand total of 15,000 of the tribe slaughtered in a week by 

 this housewife's benefactor." — Andrew Donaldson ; Carnagie 

 Street, Edinburgh, October 27, 1864. 



65. A Bait for Beetles. — I was out hunting yesterday, and 

 in my travels came across a plum tree in the centre of a large 

 wood. Scores of the ripe fruit were rotting on the ground, 



