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APII.0KISMATA ENTOMOLOGICA.
that at least in some places, and on seme occasions, "at the season of
the year " attends on this experiment, is, as Dominie Sampson used
to remark, "Prodigious! Prodigious!! Prodigions!!!" Go to the wood,
and there, if not shot by some truculent gamekeeper, m whose eyes
von will certainly cut a strange and very suspicions figure, and who
will have no notion that you are prowling after "untaxed and
undisputed game;" there, I say, with a reflector lamp at your gtrdle,
and a flat brush in your hand, wash on a small porUon o the trunks
„f an 'ad libitum' number of trees, the "lotron" I shall presently
describe the component parts of. Take of the coarsest browr, sugar
you can purchase, one pound; of heer, say one putt; borl both weU
Letber, and add a little of the liquor which, "My dear young fnend,
if "there be one lienor less abominable thau another, ,t rs that commonly
called-rum," each time when used. This decoctron wdl he found
wonderfully attractive to moths; and on returmng to the trees after
proper interval, during which the darkness has come on, you writ
frequently have both quantity and quality to choose from Ton can
best cany the seductive draught in a tolerably large "Pocke Prstoh
made by some handy tinman for the purpose-a sort of large qua.gh,
with an extra case for its lower part, taking eu and off the outsrde-
into which a necessary portion of the mixed ingredients can be poured
as required.
: RELAXATION.
I HAVE before alluded by anticipation to this part of my subject
and now proceed 'in medias res'-relaxation you will find it for yourself,
as well as for your insects, in the winter time, when you have perhaps
though it is a tiling I never have at present-a little leisure on your
hands, in which to set your summer captures to your eyes content
Thus too, having them flexible before you, you, as it were, ng
your battles o'er again," and can indulge the "flights" of your Ento­
mological "Eancy" to any extent.
Purchase, which you may do for somewhere about a shilling, at a
druggist's, a large glass jar, say one foot high, and six inches in
diameter. Let it, if possible, have a glass stopper, which, if you live
anywhere near a glass manufactory, you can easily have made, or, ii
not, a well-fitted cork one, which you can procure at a cork-cutter s.
The mouth of the jar is to be as nearly as possible of the same