[ ] 
their fldn, or of their transformation, and will 
neverthelefs eat heartily till either of thefe time3 
approach. If the infide of the cages or boxes be 
well lined with papei-, as aforefaid, and air holes 
made in the ftdes and tops, covered with crape, 
or canvafs, &c. to admit the air, it will in a 
very great meafure prevent the above ill effeds. 
idly. It is needlefs to go out to colled: infeds 
if the weather is cool, or much wind hiring, as 
at fuch times almoft all kinds of infeds conceal 
themfelves, dreading the wind as much as they 
diflike the cold. 'Many fruitlefs journies have 
been made even in the midft of fummer on this 
account. A warm and damp air, fuch as ge¬ 
nerally comes after rain, is what almoft all forts 
of Infeds are fond of, in every ftate; and it is 
moftly for this reafon they fly fo near the earth 
at fuch times, that they may enjoy the humidity 
which arife in fteams from the ground. In hot 
and dry days it is common to obferve the But-? 
terflies fettle in numbers on the mud in ditches j. 
and I have often feen above twenty fo dole to¬ 
gether as to be contained within the circumfe¬ 
rence of a lmall hoop; by which it is found that 
heat with moifture belt agrees with their nature. 
But 
( 
