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net almost ensure success. Others, less venture- 

 some, illuminate their rooms, and hold a levee of 

 moths the whole night long ; this plan allows of 

 reading or writing at the same time : the window 

 may be shut, and the moths flying against the 

 window, will knock for admittance. 



865. The ^Egeriites and Glaucopites flutter 

 sylph-like over flowers, in the hottest sunshine ; 

 and the little Tortricites, &c. with which the class 

 terminates, fly at sunset. All moths may be 

 occasionally beaten out of shrubs and bushes 

 while at rest during the day, and may also be 

 found sitting against palings, trunks of trees, &c. 



866. The second class, Diptera, is composed of 

 gnats and flies : these occur in all situations. The 

 latter may be swept off grass in abundance, or 

 taken with the forceps settling on umbellate 

 flowers. 



867. The Hymenoptera have a very various 

 economy. Ants may be found every where running 

 on the ground ; Sphecites and the neighbouring 

 orders frequent sunny sand banks; wasps are 

 found where there are sweets of any kind ; bees 

 frequent flowers and sunny sand banks in the 

 spring : all the parasites may be beaten off shrubs, 

 swept off grass, &c. ; and the Tenthredoes fre- 

 quent leaves and flowers in the early summer. 



868. The Coleoptera are to be found every where 

 on the flowers, leaves, and stems of living shrubs, 

 in the bark, under the bark, and in the wood of 



