400 Insects. 



has been no account of the method of using it ; and, from the communications o\ 

 some of my correspondents, I am inclined to believe that it is not generally understood 

 by country entomologists. A brief direction may therefore be of service, and be the 

 means of making many captures during the next summer. The strongest brown su- 

 gar, known as " Jamaica foots," is mixed with hot water to the consistence of treacle, 

 or somewhat thinner, and a small portion of rum added and stirred in ; the composi- 

 tion is then laid on the trunks of trees in favourable situations with a painter's brush. 

 I have found that it is better to make long and narrow streaks than broad patches. 

 Many species do not like to wet their feet, and sit and sip the nectar modestly and at a 

 distance, others are not so careful, but rush readily on their destruction. The sugar 

 should be put on the trees at dusk, before the moths fly ; for I have repeatedly ob- 

 served, that if used afterwards, there will not be nearly so many come. With a lan- 

 tern, suspended from the neck, and thereby preserving an upright position during eve- 

 ry movement, the collector may visit the trees several times during an evening. The 

 greater number of moths will be found during the first hour, but some species are only 

 taken late at night. Most of them may be taken very easily by holding a pill-box 

 under them, into which they will fall, and remain quiet till the next day, but some are 

 not so quiet. Some persons boil the sugar and water, and think it an advantage, but 

 I have not yet tried it. Of the efficacy of the addition of the rum I am sure, having 

 more than once seen one collector use it, and another at the same time sugar without 

 it, when the former would obtain double the number of Noctuae. — /. W. Douglas ; 6. 

 Grenville Terrace, Cobourg Road, Kent Road, November 18, 1843. 



Note on a few captures of Lepidopterous Insects. 

 June 4. Abraxas ulmata, near Matlock in Augt. Polyphasia populata, Inverness, 

 abundance. — Melanippe albulata, Ulswater, 



— Papilio Machaon, do 2 specimens Cumberland. 



August. Larissa imbutata, Dalwhinnie- — ericetata, Derwentwater. 



moor, Inverness-sh. N. B. — Nudaria mundana. 



— Ellopia fasciaria, nr. Inverness Sep. 26. Heliothis peltigera, on Braunton- 



— Charaeas Graminis. burrows near Bideford, asleep 

 Stilbia anomalata, Ben Nevis. on the sand. 



— Thomas Lighton ; 4, Caledonia Place, Clifton, Bristol, October 24, 1843. 



Notes on Captures in Suffolk. By W. Gaze, Esq. 



Although we have left off chasing our nimble friends the butter- 

 flies, for this season, and the weather being rather unfavourable for 

 searching for the autumnal moths round the blossoms of the reed and 

 ivy ; there is still left the pleasure of taking a retrospective ramble 

 over those excursions in which we were the most successful, and of 

 reading those of our brothers of the net. I therefore send, you an ac- 

 count of my excursions to Assington-thickets during the past sum- 

 mer, hoping it will prove interesting to some of the readers of ' The 

 Zoologist.' 



