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casually. Moths are still more rare : I had provided 
myself with bull’s-eye lanterns, and repeatedly took 
them out after nightfall, carefully searching the 
hanks and hedges by the sides of roads, the margins 
of woods, &c., but never, in this way, took a single 
specimen. At some seasons, however, as in De- 
cember, and more particularly June, on rainy nights, 
hundreds of little Noctuadce, Pyralidce, Geometradce, 
TineadcBi &c. fly in at the open windows, and speckle 
the ceiling, or flutter around the glass-shades with 
which the candles are protected from the draughts. 
A good many small beetles, and other insects, also 
fly in on such occasions, and several interesting 
species I have taken in this way which I never saw 
at any other time. But in general beetles and the 
other orders are extremely scarce, and especially 
Diptera ; I have often been astonished at the paucity 
of these, as compared with their abundance in 
Canada, the Southern United States, and other 
localities (in which I have collected) during the hot 
weather. One may often walk a mile, — I do not 
mean in the depth of the forest, but in situations 
comparatively open, beneath an unclouded sun, — 
and not see more than a dozen specimens of all 
orders. Nor is the beating of bushes productive of 
insects and their larvae, as I have found it in North 
America. In Canada I have shaken off perhaps 
twenty species of lepidopterous larvae in the course 
of an hour or two on an autumnal morning ; but I 
think I have seen scarcely more than half that 
number in Jamaica during a year and a half’s col- 
lecting. 
