BEARING Z3\ SEi I 



be transferred to the top of tin 1 collecting-box, when it 

 be quieted by chloroform." (Clemei -. > Or the moths may 

 be collected in pill-boxes, and then carried home and op 

 into ;i larger box filled with fumes of ether or benzim 

 cyanide of potassium. In pinching any moths on the 

 thorax, as is Bometimes done, the form of thai region is in- 

 variably distorted, And many of the .-'-ales removed. [] 

 searching for Micros we must look carefully on the 

 side of tree-, fences, hedges, and undulations in the ground, 

 for they avoid the wind, [ndeed, we can take advantage 

 of this habit of many Micros, and by blowing vigorously on 

 the trunks of trees -tart the moth off into the net so placed 

 as to intercepl it. This method is mosl productive, I 

 Barrett states, in the •• Entomologist's .Monthly Magazine," 

 while a -teail\ wind is blowing. 



The larva? varj excessively in the number of legs, sixteen 

 being the usual number, bul in several genera (Gracilaria, 

 Lithocolletis, etc.) we only find fourteen; in Nepticula, 

 though the legs are bul poorlj developed, they number 

 eighteen ; on the other hand, the larvae of a few of the 

 smaller genera (Antispila, Tinagma, etc.) are al 



footless. 



In Beeking for the larva', we must remember thai most 



them are leaf-miners, and their buiTOWS arc detected by the 



waved, brown, withered lines on the surface of leaves, and 

 their frass, or excrement, thrown oul at one end. Some 

 are found between united leaves, ^i which the upper is 

 crumpled. Others construct portable cases which they 

 draw aboul the trunks of tree-, fences, etc. others burrow 

 in the sti in- of grass, or in fungi, toadstools, and in the pith 

 of eurrant or raspberry bushes. Most are -. Uiry, a few 

 gregarious, A bush stripped of it- leaves and c< 

 webs, if not done by Clisiocampa (the American ater- 



pillar), will witness the work of a Tortrix Buds 



of unfolded herbs suffer from their attacks, as the 



heads of composite flowers which an- draw: _ ther and 

 consumed by the larva'. 



