INSTRUCTIONS IN LEPIDOPTERA. 
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beats a hedge on the side on which the wind is blowing, the 
moths he dislodges will all effect their retreat on the other, 
and he will not be benefited, except by the exercise of beating; 
many insects will be found in grass fields, and may be dis¬ 
lodged by the feet of the collector, or may be obtained by 
sweeping the herbage. In the Midland counties, and North 
of England and Scotland, many Noctuce will be found resting 
on the stone walls, and that rare species, Crymodes Templi y 
is not unfrequently found in heaps of loose stones, by care¬ 
fully turning them over one by one. Besides the above 
modes of catching butterflies and moths, some moths may 
be enticed by stratagem, that is, they may be obtained by 
sugar and by light. 
The moths which are obtained by sugar are principally 
Noctu<B.' The Bombyces never come to sugar, and the 
Geometndce and Microlepidoptera only occasionally, but 
he Noctua may be obtained in that way in great numbers; 
lence our collections are now proportionally much richer in 
Iroc^ ^ ° therS ' T ° ° btain raoths ! ’v sugar, the 
process is this, a mixture is made of coarse brown sugar and 
Isr, „^ add :‘r, o [ a m ‘ 
.re,! rsi on ,he 6 "' u ' red ,ide ° f 
The mixtnrp J n i 6 are n ° trees > on P osts > stones, &c. 
or after and as so d ^ ^ ^ ab ° Ut SUnset > or alittle before 
be revisited the n ** U f GtS tIle P^ aces sugared should 
he found sitting at the h "■! COnt,nue t0 arrive and may 
meal set beforethem • ? USlly enga S ed on the dainty 
perse, so that a is of L ^ ° f ^ ^ a11 h — dis- 
night and go and t0 , put the SUg3r ° D thetrees over 
morning. g l0 ° k f ° r the motl >s ‘here the following 
families. Bomby^ gT ° } f U ', Wd by li 9 ht are of all the 
J es> 6eomet ^«, Pyralides and Crambina, 
