THE ENTOMOLOGISrS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 183.] SATUEDAY, APRIL 7, 1860. [Price Id. 
SALLOWS. 
In the railway cutting near Croydon 
several sallow-bushes are now in full 
bloom : these particular bushes are 
generally the advance-guard of the 
rest of their tribe, but no doubt in the 
course of next week the sallows will 
begin to come pretty generally into 
bloom. Now therefore is the time to 
be up and doing; those who have only 
commenced Entomology during last 
summer have not yet had “a go” at 
the sallows ; yet at the sallows several 
species may be obtained which they 
will have small chance of meeting 
with elsewhere. 
It is always advisable to take the 
opportunity of catching species whilst 
they are to be met with ; this is far 
preferable to letting the spring-insects 
escape us at the time, and then, months 
afterwards, endeavouring to obtain by 
exchange such common species as might 
readily have been captured by any in- 
dustrious collector. 
Among the less common insects now 
to be sought at sallows we may men- 
tion Tceniocampa leucographa, T. Opima, 
T. Populeti and T. miniosa, and those 
who have not yet their full series of 
these insects should now he on the 
alert. 
Our junior readers will probably be 
glad to enrich their collections with 
such species as T. gothiea, T. instabilis, 
T. stabilis and T. cruda, and will look 
upon T. rubricosa, T. gracilis and T. 
munda as great prizes. There is a 
pleasure in taking these insects for the 
first time which we older entomologists 
look back upon with a sort of regretful 
feeling ; with us it is a pleasure long 
since past, and even if we were to 
meet with an actual novelty to-morrow 
it would not yield us the same amount 
of pleasure that our first capture of 
Instabilis afforded. The mild spring 
evening, — the blooming sallows illumi- 
nated by the aid of our lantern, — the 
DepressaricE flitting hither and thither, 
the Tceniocampce and Cerastes settled 
on the sallow-blossoms with their spiral 
tongues actively at work, and the eyes 
glowing like live coals ; Cidaria Miata 
and Selenia illunaria also sipping at 
the luscious nectar, with their wings 
erect, and ready to take flight at the 
slightest alarm, whilst a tattered hy- 
bernated Calocampa Exoleta, with its 
crumpled wings, crawls leisurely up a 
branch, — all these things, as we think 
of them, call to our recollection many 
a pleasant evening which we have 
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