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be seen, a great number of most interesting species will be reared. 
Among the best species I have bred in this way was Lobophora 
sexalata, as also Tethea retusa. 
Sallows come into bloom much according to locality, and 
whether the season is forward or late. Ihave seen sallows well 
out in the southern counties at the end of February ; while in the 
Highlands of Scotland I had a grand night’s collecting at them 
on the 17th of June, as described by me in the ‘ Entomologist’ 
(Entom. ix. 272). The collector should, therefore, go by daylight, 
first to see if the bushes bear catkins, and better still to mark 
their position, and so save much time and trouble at night. 
On nights unsuited to moths feeding at the sallow catkins, the 
collector’s time may be employed by searching the herbage and 
twigs of trees for moths at rest. Of course no such bags as are 
made from the sallows must be expected; nevertheless many 
species may be added to the collection in this way, and some 
quite unexpectedly. Spring-feeding larvee, especially on the low 
sallow bushes and dwarf sallow, will fully occupy our time, and 
by no means unprofitably. 
I hope that the randomly written lines just penned may 
induce some collector to work with success during the coming 
spring, and better still to tell us in these pages of his good luck. 
Royal Aquarium, Westminster, S.W., March 21, 1883. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 
Eprinc Forest.—The Legislature has again resolved that 
Epping Forest shall be kept “ unenclosed and unbuilt on, as an 
open space for the recreation of the public,” aud has decreed that 
an unnecessary railway through its already too small confines is 
neither calculated to “ preserve the natural aspect of the Forest,” 
nor is it in accordance with either the letter or spirit of the Epping 
Forest Act, 1878. Thanks to the good work done by the 
Commons Preservation Society and to the energetic action taken 
by the officers of the Essex Field Club, ably seconded by most of 
the Natural History Societies within and in the neighbourhood 
of the metropolis, the Great Eastern Railway (High Beech 
Extension) Bill, 1883, was defeated in the House of Commons on 
its second reading by 230 votes against 82, on March 12th last. 
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