well represented, 75 species a night being the usual average in the latter part 

 of the collecting. Although there were naturally long series of some species, 

 yet of not many did we secure a larger number of specimens than we had use 

 for. Our method of procedure, though probably not essentially different from 

 that of others who sugar for moths, was as follows: About 7 o'clock or 

 7:30 in the evening we went over the route and put on the "sugar," which, 

 according to Mr. Cockle's formula, was made by heating a mixture of three pounds 

 of sugar and one pound of molasses until thoroughly dissolved, then thinning with 

 beer until of a syrupy consistence and adding a small glass of rum. This was 

 spread by means of a good-sized whitewash brush, upon stumps, fence boards 

 and palings, telegraph poles, etc., along certain roads and paths back of 

 Kalso, usually along a circuitous route which brought us back to the starting 

 point without going twice over the same ground. About 9:30 we started 

 out again, equipped with a lantern, several large and small cyanide jars of good 

 strength, a few vials of alcohol and two large muslin sacks, one of which con- 

 tained 1 50 or 200 empty paper pill boxes. The moths were caught on the 

 sugar by clapping the cyanide jar over them and when partially overcome 

 by the fumes they were removed to pill boxes, each moth being put, when 

 possible, in a separate box. Each pill box, as it was filled, was then transferred 

 to the empty muslin sack. Next morning the boxes were opened, male moths 

 removed to cyanide bottles and the females confined in glass jars in order, if 

 possible, to secure eggs from them for life history studies." 



A SUGARING TRAP. 



It is quite impossible for some of my pupils, especially some of the 

 women, to spend the time and undergo the inconvenience of making nightly 

 trips to sugar for moths. In many localities it is safe to use a poison sugaring 

 mixture which will kill the moths. Take two ounces of arsenic and two 

 ounces of bicarbonate of soda and boil for half an hour in a quart of water. 

 Two table-spoonfuls of this solution placed in the sugaring mixture will poison 

 all the moths that partake of it, and many will drop to the ground. A sheet 

 or newspapers may be used to catch them, but toads and other enemies will 

 destroy so many of them that I recommend the funnel and cyanide bottle de- 

 scribed by Mr. Caudell. It is not necessary to state that this poisoned mix- 

 ture should not be placed on trees where harm could result from the poison. 

 A small splash from a brush on the bark of a tree just above the bag will en- 

 able you to secure many moths which are attracted and you can visit your 

 traps each morning and secure them. Mr. Cockle's mixture, or any boiled 

 mixture or cooked compound, lasts longer without drying up and is superior 

 for this purpose. This poison trap is an invention of my own and works well 

 in this mountainous region. I am fully aware that it would not answer in some 

 localities. I paste druggist's "poison" labels on the trees, as I have known 

 of people whose curiosity led them to taste the mixture. 



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Address all letters: (MISS) XIMENA McGLASHAN, 



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