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would settle oa the wall, some on the table, while many 

 would fly lip to the roof and give me a chase all over 

 the verandah before I could secure them. In order to 

 show the curious connexion between the state of the 

 weather and the degree in ■wliich moths were attracted 

 to light, I add a hst of my captures each night of my 

 stay on the hill. 



Date. 



1855. 

 Dec ISlti 

 „ Utji 

 IStU 



, 17th 

 „ 18tk 

 » IStli 



„ aist 



i8se. 



Jail. I8t 



» 2d 

 3d 



» 4tji 



„ 5th 



„ 6th 



„ 7th 



„ Sth 



„ 9th 



„ lf)th 



„ nth 



„ 12th 



„ 13th 



„ 14th 



„ 16th 



„ 1 6th 



„ 17tli 



„ 18th 



Total. . 



Ko. of 



1 



75 

 41 

 158 

 82 

 9 

 2 

 20O 



185 

 68 

 50 

 12 

 10 

 @ 

 8 

 10 

 S6 

 30 

 260 

 56 

 44 

 4 

 24 



1 



1,386 



Flue ; atari iglit. 

 Drizzly ami fog. 

 Shuwory; clftudy, 

 {120 Bpt'cies.) f^teady mitt. 

 Wet ; rath&r moonU^t. 

 Fiue ; moonlight. 

 Fine ; cX^Ar moonlight 

 (ISO species,) Dark aud windy; 

 he&vy rain, 



Ve»7 ret. 



doody and ^ovree& 



Cloudy. 



Fioe. 



Fine. 



Very toe. 

 Very ine 

 Fine. 



Showery. 

 Showery, 



Heavy rain all night, and dark. 

 Showery. 



Showiety; some moonlight 

 Fine ; moonlif^ht 

 liaiB; raoonli^fht 

 Showers; moonlight. 

 Showers j mpoulight. 

 Showers; moonlight 



It thus appears that on twenty-six nights I collected 

 1,386 moths, but that more than 800 of them were col- 

 lected on four very wet and dark nights. Hy success here 

 led me to hope that, by similar arrangements, I might in 

 every island be able to obtain abundance of these insects ; 

 but, strange to say, during the aL\: succeeding years I waa 



