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SALLOWS. 
By Joun T. CARRINGTON, BES. 
Ir has ever been my desire since taking charge of this 
magazine to offer through its pages such notes or longer articles 
as might lead the younger students of Entomology, especially of 
Lepidoptera, to take greater interest in our favourite study. 
With this object I write the following lines, further hoping that 
some of our older correspondents may be reminded that the time 
has come to renew series of those insects which it is always 
a pleasure to meet with at this season of the year, after our long 
entomological hybernation. 
Naturally in the early spring the lepidopterist thinks of 
sallows. Although much ought to have been done by the 
beginner in working up those species of the genus Hibernia 
which appear in spring, such as H. lewcophearia and H. progem- 
maria, as well as Anisopteryx escularia, besides that common 
hedgerow species A. rupicapraria ; and even, still, if the sallows 
are not in full bloom, as will be the case now in the North of 
England, sugar will be found for a short time most attractive. At 
sugar, on mild evenings in February and March, in woods and 
plantations, most Noctue which have hybernated may be taken in 
fair condition. In addition, should there be birch trees in the 
neighbourhood, we may reasonably hope to find Cymatophora flavi- 
cornis in some numbers, as well as T'@niocampa munda in many 
forms, and some varieties are worth looking for. This last species 
is taken usually in much finer condition at sugar than at sallows, 
being about the earliest to appear of the genus T’eniocampa. 
It is doubtful whether the word “sallows” causes as much 
pleasure in the mind of the botanist as it does to that of the 
entomologist, as much difficulty is found in defining the varieties. 
If I remember rightly there are some twenty-seven species in the 
genus Salix; but to the lepidopterist the chief interest lies with 
those which flower most and longest. This applies to those fine 
upright shrubs which ornament our woods in early spring with 
the brilliant yellow blooms of the male plants, for the flowers of 
female shrubs in this genus are usually green in colour. Hach 
sex seems attractive to moths, but personally I have generally 
found the latter the more attractive. 
