COLLECTING INSECTS. 
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( Blatta Orientalis) and baited as recom- 
mended for the bottles, may also be employed. 
The aperture should be so small as not to admit 
7nice, which are destructive to insects. Old 
cellars, subterraneous passages, barns, stables, 
damp pits, &c. also contain various insects, 
which may betaken by this method. Another 
plan, also very successful during the Spring 
and Summer, is laying bones (particularly mar- 
row bones), with a little meat left on them, 
horns of sheep, &c. about sand and gravel pits, 
woods and gardens. An empty sugar cask, 
or a tub, or beehive smeared both inside and 
out with sugar and water, or honey and water, 
will attract the Noctuidce, and some beetles. 
The tub or beehive should be elevated three or 
four feet from the ground, and placed near the 
border of a wood, or in a garden. Another 
trap will be found useful, which is simply lay- 
ing any sweet matter (raspberry jam and wa- 
ter, honey water, &c.) thinly on a plate, and 
placing it beneath a hand glass raised a few 
inches from the ground by means of bricks, 
having previously removed three or four of the 
upper panes of glass. Upon this place another 
hand glass, with the glass entire, into which the 
moths will find their way, and may be easily 
captured. 
