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take fome males for females, and the con- 

 trary, while they are hi the filk balls j but this 

 is of no confequence, for when the moths 

 come out they are eafily diftinguifhed, the 

 females having a large round belly, their 

 colour fomewhat whiter, and their horns 

 not fo large nor fo black as the male ; be- 

 fides the difference of fliape, which in the 

 body of the male is more flender and fharp 

 at the end, you will obferve him fluttering 

 his wings with great quicknefs, and moving 

 ahout with adivity ; whereas the female 

 remains very quiet, and flirs her wings 

 very little. When you find the moths are 

 come out of the balls, you fhould nail 

 againft the fide of the room a piece of 

 fmooth woollen ftuff, no matter how old 

 and ordinary, about a couple of yards 

 broad every way, or in proportion to your 

 number of moths j then, by means of two 

 or three fhort threads faflened to its lower 

 edge, you may turn this edge up about 

 three or four inches, and faliening the 

 other end of the threads a little higher into 

 the fluff, fix two or three fliort flicks 

 fliarpened at the ends, to make the lower 

 edge of the fluff fland out from the wali, 

 like a kind of fhelf, about three or four 



inches 



