SINCE the summer of 1932 the distribution of insects by aerial currents has been studied in this Department. The present communication concerns theted last year1 experiments made with kites over the land ; investigations over the sea were briefly repor. The methods employed have been borrowed from oceanography and inverted. Tow-nets, with a three-foot diameter mouth, have been carried into the air by kites to heights ranging from 150ft. to 2,350 ft. The nets were sent up closed, opened automatically at the desired height, and closed again at the end of the sampling period before being hauled down. 82 samples were obtained, yielding 839 insects in a total collecting time of 124½ hours from May until September.