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For long collecting trips extensive preparations such as are de- 
scribed by Lord Walsingham are necessary. But for a morning’s 
work about home it will be found convenient to take a wide-mouthed 
one ounce vial, a vial of chloroform, and a small paper box, say 
two inches square by one-half of an inch deep, with a piece of 
cottonbatting fitting into the bottom and another into the top of 
it. Loosen the stopper of the wide-mouthed vial, and put one 
or two drops of chloroform on.it so that the fumes will fill the 
vial and then tighten the stopper again. When you find the micro- 
lepidopteron resting upon a fence, or the trunk or leaf of a tree, 
remove the stopper and invert the vial over the insect ; it will spring 
back into the vial and in a moment will be quiescent ; it may then 
be removed to the paper box (between the two pieces of batting, 
which will hold it steady and prevent it from getting rubbed). A 
drop or two of chloroform in the box will complete the work. 
The box may be carried safely in the vest pocket and the insects 
set upon return home. l 
Lord Walsingham says nothing about collecting from fences, 
ete., and recommends the late hours of the day as best for net-col- 
lecting. But for collecting with the vial as above described I have 
found the later morning hours, say from ten to one o’clock, the 
best and the trunks and fences the best localities. Out of at least 
one hundred and fifty species of Tineina which I have found here, 
tally three-fourths have been taken resting upon the leeward side 
- Of a board fence not two hundred yards Tong, at Linden Grove 
Cemetery at this place.—V. T. CuamsBers, Covington, Ky. 
On THE Occurrence or A Near RELATIVE or ÆGIOTHUS FLAVI- 
ROSTRIS, AT Wattnam, Massacuusetts.— Mr. Wm. Brewster, of 
Cambridge, Mass., some time since transmitted to the Smithsonian 
Institution, a Specimen of a species of Agiothus which heretofore 
not been noticed as occurring on this continent. It was 
obtained Nov. Ist, 1870, from a flock of the common Æ. linarius, 
of which six specimens were also killed at the same shot. The 
Specimen in question agrees most closely with females of Æ. fla- 
virostris, a European species; but differs in some very essential 
respects, the most important of which is a tinge of sulphur-yellow 
= Some places instead of tawny buff, which reminds one, at first 
Sight, of the Chrysomitris pinus; the tail is also shorter than in 
flavirostris proper. From the two common North American 
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