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Method of collecting them in their Chry- 
falis State. 
Butterflies and Moths may often be 
found in chryfalis under the projec- 
tions of garden walls, pales, outhoufes, 
in fummer-houfes, &c. and frequently 
on their food. 
A great variety of Moths in this 
ftate may with more certainty be found 
by digging in the winter months un- 
der the trees which they feed on, par- 
ticularly under the Oak, Willow, 
Lime, and Elm Trees. When they are 
dug up in this manner, they are to be 
placed as foon as convenient in a box, 
fuch as is reprefented in the plate, and 
kept covered with moifl: earth till the 
enfuing fpring, when they may be dug 
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