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brambles, and, if the night be calm, they will soon 

 discover your sugar ; then the smaller fry of Depres- 

 sarice, Tinece and Tortrices, with an occasional Pyra- 

 liSj make their appearance until twilight deepens into 

 the deep shades of evening, when the Noctuce, that 

 especially favour the saccharine repast, make their ap- 

 pearance, their brilliant eyes burning like lamps as 

 they sit on the " sugar " that has " betrayed them into 

 the hands of the fowler." Of those species that most 

 commonly come to sugar, we may enumerate Noctua 

 festiva, C. nigrum, Phylopira tragopogonis, Ncenia 

 typica, Agrotis putris, Acronycta Aceris and mega- 

 cephala, Bryophila perla and glandifera, Ceropa- 

 cha fluctuosa and duplaris^ Phlogophora meticulosa, 

 Agrotis segetum, suffusa, puta and exclamationis ; 

 while, as " sugar" plums, we may occasionally capture 

 Agrotis lunigera (in the Isle of Wight), Acronycta 

 Alniy auricoma and Ligustri, Dipthera Orion and 

 Cymatophora Oo. 



Light is also very attractive ; all the Bombyces and 

 many of the Sphingidce are attracted by it, and, in 

 country or suburban districts, often make their way 

 into the gas lamps by running up the lamp posts, and 

 so make their way in by the hole at the bottom of the 

 lamp, through which the burner passes ; but once in, it 

 is impossible for them to get out again, for, from the 

 universal tendency of all moths (as well as larvae) to 

 crawl upwards, they often get to the top of the lamp, 

 and so over the flame, in which position they get 

 scorched to death, their wingless and shrunken bodies, 



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on the bottom of the lamps, testifying to the cause of 

 death ; and thus they become martyrs to their love of 

 light. 



