THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
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both my feet fast, and there I stood, 
feeling for all the world as if I had been 
converted into two huge suckers, such as 
the boys use for trying wbether the 
paving-stones are firmly seated, and 
somebody or other was going to lift the 
forest with me. {Mem. The goloshes for 
roads like these require to come up to 
the knees.) After various extrications 
and breaking out in fresh places I com- 
menced business on a hornbeam, “his 
large knot,” where there were divers ants 
sailing about, and such a storehouse of 
wealth revealed itself, after lifting a 
piece of the bai-k, that I could n’t do 
anything with the tenants — they betook 
themselves ofif so rapidly; just as when 
you throw a stone into a piece of water, 
and see the circles getting larger and 
larger, until they are lost for ever ; be- 
sides I had no bottle with me, — what a 
run of luck men have generally when 
they are not prepared for it, — so I could 
do nothing better than put a few into a 
pill-box, put on the lid, and then puff in 
a little tobacco-smoke amongst them to 
arrest the inquisitive habit they became 
possessed of in an instant of running to 
the top of the box to see what was 
going on outside. Then I put in a few 
more, and repeated the above, and so on 
a good many times into a good many 
boxes. After I had satisfied the craving 
— I fear I have a great many more 
(gentle reader, not cravings) of all kinds 
than I require for my own cabinet — I 
made an examination, and these are 
amongst the captures : — 
Cryptarcha strigata, 
Nitidula decemguttata, 
... imperialis, 
and some as yet undetermined Staphs. 
I left ten times as many in the tree as I 
brought away, and I am sorry to think I 
can give no direction for finding it. 
Perhaps I may as well stale here that 
the sole cause of such a wonderful accu- 
mulation of life was the presence of 
several “incipient” Goat-moth cater- 
pillars. 
Then I took to beating the bushes, 
and then there came by a man, who was 
evidently beating about the bush to 
ascertain what I had found ; but I had 
lost my tongue, and I could n’t be posi- 
tive whether the trees had also lost 
their’s ; at any rate he got no answer, 
so we parted, and the trees boughed him 
out of my sight. 
Then five o’clock came, and with it 
the friend who had promised to lay 
everything in train and be with me 
at that time, and so we chatted and 
smoked, and tried to do double work in 
half time, and we did as follows: — 
Took the lai-voe of — 
Gelechia albipalpella, 
Scythropia cratasgella, 
Coleophora siccifolia ; 
Beat out — 
(Ecophora tripuncta. 
Tinea arcella, 
Argyresthia glaucinella, 
besides a few commoner species. Then, 
at half-past eight, Venustuhi made its 
appearance, flying in pairs, one after the 
other, and so we boxed a few, and con- 
sidered we had done very well, and 
although I have headed this “A Run to 
Epping,” we footed it a great deal faster 
from it. There were only two of us cer- 
tainly, but we had a considerable amount 
of Forest, Smart’s Lane and the Station 
to do in five minutes. Somehow or other 
we made the Station as the train was in 
motion, and half of us got left behind. — 
John Scott, 13, Torrington Villas, Lee, 
S.E. 
