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Most of the Lipedopterous Insects, unless caught the first 

 day of their coming out of the Chrysalis, are worth little ; 

 from which circumstance arises the necessity of carefully 

 watching those particular times, and of making frequent 

 excursions to have them in perfection. Butterflies are only 

 caught on wing when the sun shines warm; the greatest 

 number of them are found in the vicinity of woods ; some 

 delight in meadows, others in gardens, orchards, clover 

 fields, commons, and shady lanes^ most of those that fre- 

 quent woods, may be taken with greater facility early in the 

 morning, a few hours after sun-rise ; at which time they 

 may be found feeding on flowers that grow by the sides of 

 woods : but when the sun acquires more strength, they fly 

 highj and so swift, as to be taken with the greatest difficulty. 



Moths are mostly quiescent during the day, and come 

 forth from their retreats at the approach of evening, soon 

 after sun-set ; like Butterflies, they inhabit a variety of 

 places, and are to be met wiUi in the greatest num- 

 bers near woods : they may also be found during the 

 day time, by beating the hedges, particularly towards 

 evening, as at that time the least motion will put them on 

 wing. Numbers maybe found during day-time, adhering to 

 the bark of trees, on the shady sides of walls and pales sur- 

 rounding gardens, and under projecting pales in field fences, 

 and may ihen be caughtin the greatest perfection ; but few fly 

 during the day time, and those that do,generaily so high as not 

 to be taken. It has been suggested that they may be taken 

 in the dusk of evening with a net carried before a light, in the 

 neighbourhood of woods, but those that are thus cajttured are 

 of little worthy, and are very liable to ii!jury, owing to the 



