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fine evenings, during the Summer. Flaving a 

 table placed near an open window facing a gar- 

 den, or in a summer-house with a lanthorn or 

 large lamp, the flame being secured by a glass, 

 the light will attract moths and other noc- 

 turnal insects, and numbers may be taken 

 with the forceps. Barbut, Harris and others, 

 mention a practice which has long been suc- 

 cessfully adopted by London collectors for 

 attracting the males of the fox, and grass 

 egger moths, fLaslocampa Rubi, and Qucr- 

 cus.J 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 many other species of insects might be 

 attracted, if exposed in a similar manner. 



