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WINTER. 
seasons. Small moths when at rest may be 
taken by means of a pill box, by placing the 
box and lid partly opened close to the insect, 
and shutting it in. The Winter moths, although 
numerous, are generally rare in cabinets, which 
is to be attributed to the little search that is 
made for them. An assiduous collector would, 
there is no doubt, make some new and inter- 
esting discoveries at this season of the year. 
The white thorn and other shrubs and trees 
should be searched for cocoons of the different 
species of large saw-flies {CimbicidcE). 
When examining trunks of trees and projec- 
tions of pales and walls, chrysalides will. occa- 
sionally be found attached ; these must be 
removed with great care, and placed in an 
open box in a dry breeding cage. 
The droppings of horses, cows, deer, and 
sheep, are very productive of “ the shard borne 
beetles,'' and should be searched throughout 
the year, and those which bury themselves in 
the ground dug out ; and the grubs or mag- 
gots, which inhabit dung, carefully removed 
into a jar kept for the purpose. The grub of 
the bot-fly ( Gasterophilus Equi ) will, with 
others, be occasionally found in horse drop- 
pings, and adhering to the coats of the stomach 
of dead horses. 
