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sible, and for safe carriage the box may be 
filled lip with moss, and the chrysalides re- 
moved into a breeding cage or garden pot. 
If it be intended to send the chrysalides to a 
distance, they should be carefully packed in a 
box on layers of damp moss, and filled up 
with it to prevent their being shaken. The 
Winter digging for chrysalides ought not to 
commence earlier than toward the latter end 
of January. 
Water insects may be taken in ponds and 
ditches in mild weather. As, however, they 
are to be found throughout the year, this occu- 
pation should not be followed at any time to 
the hindrance of digging, and collecting moss. 
In fishing for them the luater-net must be 
repeatedly drawn under the weeds, near the 
surface, and round the roots and stems of those 
at the bottom of ponds and ditches. Some 
rare beetles are occasionally to be found ad- 
hering to the underside of stones in rivulets, 
and on the margins of brooks, ponds, &c. 
under the mud. Also by stamping on the 
ground by the sides of ponds, &c. in boggy 
grounds, particularly in Spring. 
The trunks of trees, pales, and walls (parti- 
cularly under the projections), bushes in woods, 
shrubs, &c. in gardens, will produce some 
species of moths, which are not found at other 
