PECULIAR METHODS OF 
Attracting Moths, &c. The following’ 
method has been very successfully employed 
on fine moonless evenings, from March to 
November. Place a table near to an open 
window facing a garden, or in a summer-house, 
on which set a bright lanthorn or large lamp, 
the flame being secured by a glass, the light 
will attract moths and other nocturnal insects, 
and numbers may be taken with the bag-net or 
forceps. Barbut, Harris, and others, mention 
a practice which has long been successfully 
adopted by London collectors for attracting 
the males of the fox, and grass egger moths, 
{Lasiocampa Rubi, and Quercus.) When 
they have bred or taken a female of either of 
those species, they put her alive while a virgin, 
into a box with a gauze lid, and take her to a 
wood, and, in favourable weather, she never 
fails to attract a number of males, which are 
easily taken. There is little doubt but that 
the males of other species of insects might be 
taken in a similar manner. 
Mothing by means of a lanthorn has before 
been recommended. Mr. Walton has been 
very successful in capturing various Noctuce, 
&c. (some very rare), feeding on the ripe ber- 
ries of the Yew tree, at various periods, from 
the latter end of September until the 14th of 
