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was on our lists for many years on the 

 strength of a specimen obtained at the 

 lighthouse of the North Foreland. 



If you have a window facing the open 

 country, a lamp will often attract mot! s 

 to it. We have taken many species 

 "abundantly by this means that we 

 rarely took by ordinary collecting 

 Those who live in towns, but go for a 

 holiday in the Summer months, may 

 avail themselves of this to advantage. 

 Nor need the time be wasted if nothing- 

 comes to the light, for the specimens 

 obtained through the day can be set 

 out while you are waiting. 



We have a small green-house at the 

 foot of our garden, behind the house, 

 and have taken large numbers of insects 

 there by taking a lamp down and 

 opening one of the slides. Last year 

 we secured a splendid variety of the 

 White Ermine (A. menthastri) by this 

 means, with the wings all smoky brown, 

 besides three or four nearly immacula be. 



Besides these ordinary modes of 

 attraction special means have also been 

 devised. One method called " The 

 American Moth Trap " was introduced j 

 a few years ago, but does not seem to 

 have realized the expectations raised by 

 its inventors. One collector told us 

 that the best way to use it was to light 

 it, take it and place it on the top of j 

 some wali and lea\e it. 



Fen collectors, and perhaps others, 

 use a " lighthouse " which is a glass 

 box on the top of a pole, well lighted 

 with as many bright lights as you a n 

 £et into it. A sheet is erected behind 

 it, and the moths are either taken on 



the sheet or as they fly about. Most of 

 the rarer fen species in our collections 

 have been taken by this means. 



We translated from " Feuille des 

 j Jeunes NaturaJistes," on page 94, an 

 account of the capture of Nocturnal 

 Lepidoptera by the use of magnesium 

 wire. Some of our readers at the time 

 were rather taken with the idea, and 

 said they would try it this Autumn. 

 We should be glad to hear from any 

 I one who does so, whether successful or 

 , not. A small portion is to be burnt to 

 attract the attention of the insects to 

 the lesser light, which is suspended in 

 the most convenient place for their cap- 

 ture. 



We recommend our young readers to 

 try each and all of these modes of 

 capture, and we shall be glad to hear 

 from them that we may record the 

 result. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 



Our friends have had great trouble hitherto 

 in procuring the Young Naturalist through 

 a Bookseller : the firm -who supplied the 

 trade at first being too far from the centre for 

 collectors to go to Walworth for odd copies of 

 a penny paper. We now have pleasure to 

 announce that we have arranged with 

 Messrs. John Kempster & Co., 

 St. Bride's Avenue, 



Fleet Street, 



London, E. C, 

 who will in future supply the trade ; and we 

 trust our readers will have no further difficulty 

 in procuring copies through a local Bookseller. 



EXCHANGE. 



Preserved larvae of Caja, Menthastri, Filipcn- 

 dulz, Potatoria, Antiqua, B. rubi, Grossulariata, 

 and Capsincola. I want Rhamni, Sinapis, 

 Galathce, Sybilla, Polychloros; and C. album. — J. 

 J. Dixon, Darlington Street, Hartlepool. 



