OF BRITISH HONDURAS
 If you beat bushes and hedges for moths,
which is so productive in England, you will rarely,
if ever, dislodge a single specimen. They simply
have vanished and apparently do not exist.
 By far the best way to collect moths in this
country in my opinion is to attract them by
light, for although, as I have said, the street
lamps in villages and towns near the coast are
unproductive, yet I have found that away in the
interior in sheltered valleys, if a light is used in
the vicinity of the forest it is very successful,
and many good things may be obtained by its
use.
 Digging for pupae under trees is not to be recom-
mended because, in the first place, it is not produc-
tive-the trees being too numerous and too
closely packed together, and, in the second, because
it is positively dangerous. Scorpions and centi-
pedes lurk here, and poisonous snakes are not
uncommonly at rest in the shelter of the root
buttresses.
 Such are the rattlesnakes, which are very
abundant in the north of the Colony, the coral
snake, which I have seen the length of six feet
and as thick as a man's arm, and a snake called
locally the Tommy Goff," which grows to a
length of five or six feet with a stout body, and
which I believe is the dreaded Fer de lance of the
West Indies. All these snakes are fairly common