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REPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



and tubes and into the bottles, where they will remain until removed 

 and destroyed. [Patent No. 130390, dated August 13, 1872.] 



Mr. Thomas Byrne, of New York City, and Mr. Deidrich Strunk, of 

 Lavaca, Tex., have invented a trap so arranged that the light is strongly 



reflected in the liquid, hoping by this 

 device to attract and destroy a greater 

 number of moths. 



A represents an open vessel, which is 

 adapted for containing carbolic acid, 

 coal-tar, or any other liquid which will 

 destroy insects. 



Within this vessel and centrally ar- 

 ranged is a lamp, B, which is secured 

 fast to the bottom of the vessel, and con- 

 structed with a rim on its top for receiv- 

 ing and keeping in place a chimney, C. 

 The chimney, which is of glass or other 

 transparent material, consists of a con- 

 tracted tubular portion, rf, a contracted 

 FIG. 73. Byrne & Strunk's trap-Ian- base portion, , and two conical portions, 



6 c, united at their bases. 



Upon this chimney is a funnel-shaped chimney, D, consisting of a 

 downwardly-flaring portion, e, a tubular portion,/, and a cap or hood, g. 

 This chimney D is made of metal or other suitable opaque substance, 

 and the inner side of its base or flaring portion e is x>lated or otherwise 

 polished so as to afford a good reflecting surface which will not readily 

 tarnish. 



At night, after the lamp is lighted, the device is mounted upon a post 

 or suspended from a bush in any conspicuous place, where it will be 

 visible to surrounding insects. 



All that portion of the device above the lower edge of the chimney D 

 will be dark, and the rays of light will be reflected downwardly and out- 

 wardly into the liquid in the vessel A beneath, thus illuminating the 

 liquid, and also that portion of the transparent chimney C which is be- 

 low the lower edge of the opaque chimney D. 



This portion b of the chimney C being illuminated, made of glass or 

 other smooth substance and inclined, it operates to throw down into the 

 liquid beneath the insects which fly against it. 



Instead of securing the lamp to the pan A this lamp and its chimneys 

 may be suspended above the pan or other suitable vessel containing 

 liquid. 



It is obvious that the portions c and d of the chimney C might be dis- 

 pensed with in the manufacture of t.Ms insect-destroyer, by fitting the 

 lower edge of the deflector directly to the upper edge of the deflecting 

 portion C. [Patent No. 109869, dated December 6, 1870.] 

 A lantern patented by Mark Eigels, of Newton, Ala, is provided with 



