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COLLECTING BY LAMPLIGHT. 



BY A. S. VAN WINKLE. 

 (Continued from p. 69, vol. i.) 



In order to show the curious connection between the state of 

 the weather and the degree in which moths were attracted to Hght 

 I will now append the following table, which may prove of great 

 interest to young entomologists, with a view that they may 

 prepare tables in like manner: 



Total, 1386 



"Thus it appears that on twenty-six nights I collected 1386 

 moths, but that more than 800 of them were collected on four 

 very wet and dark nights. My success here led me to hope that, 

 by similar arrangements, I might, in every island, be able to ob- 

 tain abundance of these insects, but strange to say, during the 

 six succeeding years I was never once able to make any collections 

 at all approaching those at Sarawak." 



