BYE-GONE HULL NATURALISTS. Il3 
APPENDIX. 
SUGARING FOR NOCTUZ. 
By THE LATE GEORGE NORMAN. 
Having been requested by the worthy Editor of this 
journal [Lhe Canadian Entomologist] to contribute a few 
hints on sugaring for Noctue, I have endeavoured to put 
together a few notes that may prove serviceable to those who 
may not have been successful in this method of capture. To 
begin with, it ought to be a golden rule never to abandon a 
locality, even should it yield nothing for a few nights. Often 
have I sugared a new locality night after night, with absolutely 
no results, but by persevering the moths have become 
attracted to the place, and, in course of time, were swarming 
on every tree. 
The mixture I have found to answer best is either the 
common black treacle (not refined syrup), or the very coarsest 
brown sugar, called, I believe, by the trade, ‘‘ Jamaica foots.” 
In either case the sugar or treacle must be thinned down toa 
proper consistency by means of stale ale, or, what is still 
better, the thick yeasty residuum from an ale or stout cask. 
Some collectors add a drop or two of oil of aniseed, and, just 
before brushing on to the trees, a small quantity of rum, but 
I have really found no benefit from either addition. My 
receptacle for the mixture is made of zinc, flattened at the 
sides and rounded at the corners, so as easily to slip into my 
shooting-coat pocket. It has a brass screw at the neck, with 
a leather washer, the handle being attached to the brush—an 
ordinary painter’s ‘sash tool’’—and goes inside the neck, and 
is screwed tight when in the pocket. By this means all soiling 
the fingers is avoided. 
On arriving at my ground, I look for a round with plenty 
of young trees with stems under twelve inches in diameter, 
selecting a place interspersed, if possible, by walks and foot- 
paths. The thick, dense portions of woods are of no use, but 
the outside trees will do very well, provided the trees are not 
too large, and the trunks too rough and corky; choose the 
trees of medium roughness, for perfectly smooth ones, such as 
beech and young poplars, are as bad as those too rough, and 
rarely pay for the trouble. Spread the mixture on the lee- 
ward side of the tree, in a longish patch, at about the height © 
of your face from the ground, as near sunset as possible as 
to time. Then comes a quiet pipe or two until it is dark 
