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is the best time for catching them, and the most 

 effective mode of doing so is by " sugaring." Boil 

 together the very coarsest moist sugar and beer, 

 mix some new rum in it, and keep it tightly 

 stopped. When about to go off after Moths, im- 

 merse a dozen or so pieces of rag in the sugar, and 

 put them, still moist, into a little pot. Take a 

 bull's-eye lantern, the net, and plenty of pins and 

 boxes, and start off after dark for some place where 

 there are trees. Pin the rags on the trunks of the 

 trees, and after half an hour or so light the lantern, 

 tie it on the waist, so as to leave both hands at 

 liberty, and go round the trees. Upon and about 

 all the sugar-rags will be a very crowd of Moths, 

 some of them with their eyes gleaming like 

 living opals, some flying, and some sitting on the 

 tree quite stupefied with the rum. 



Mgs. 1 and 3 show the " setting-board" as seen 

 from above and in section. 



Any one can make a setting-board. It is only 

 needful to procure some flat cork from the cork- 

 cutter's, cut it into strips, and then glue thera on 

 a board, leaving a sufficient space between them 

 for the body of the Moth. Many entomologists 

 bevel off the cork, as shown in fig. 3, but 

 personally I prefer the cork to be flat. 



In order to " set " the Moths properly, cut a 



