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twigs ; calm sunny afternoons are the best suited for 

 this operation. 



But look, what is that large insect on the birch 

 stem near that pool of water ? lucky again, that is 

 Notodonta Carmelita (this insect also occurs at West 

 Wickham on the " Bishop's palings"). And now 

 having " bagged" your game persevere in your search, 

 for here the unique Solenobia Douylasii w r as taken. 



And now let us beat the oaks for a little while, and 

 see what they -produce. Click goes the beating-stick 

 among the branches. Hilloa ! what are you ? Oh ! 

 only Tortricodes Hyemana ; get out, you common 

 rascal ! I can take you any time. Stop my friend ; 

 do you want the insect ? Yes ! Then take it ; don't 

 put off till to-morrow what can be done to-day ; if you 

 don't take it now, perhaps you will not get another 

 chance till next season, and your check will be incom- 

 plete of a common insect. T believe many cabinets 

 are thus incomplete from the prevailing idea that com- 

 mon insects can be taken "any time/' and therefore 

 are to be left till the last, so that the collector fre- 

 quently comes home with a few insects that he fancies 

 he " does want" that are not common, leaving behind 

 him many insects that are strangers to his cabinet be- 

 cause they are " common." 



By beating you will obtain from among the oaks 

 Heusimenejimbriana and Dasystoma Salicella ; while 

 on the trunks of the oak trees near the roots Biston 

 prodromaria may be found, together with Chima- 

 bacche fayella, male and female, and among the birches, 

 flying by day, Incurvaria pectinea occurs. 



In cases among the "wind flower" or ''Wood 



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