THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 88.] SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1858. [Price Id. 
GUILDFORD. 
“What a very pretty place!” “I 
had no idea the country about Guild- 
ford was so pretty.” “This looks a 
glorious collecting-ground.” Such were 
the observations that greeted us on 
the 21st ultimo, from nine-tenths of 
the entomologists present. People go 
to Box Hill and to Leith Hill, and to 
Leith Hill and to Box Hill, over and 
over again: just because they have 
been once they go again ; but it re- 
quires a very powerful inducement to 
get an entomologist to try new ground, 
and the older he is as a collector the 
less chance there is of getting him to 
deviate from the beaten track. Now 
the Hog’s Back leading direct to the 
ants’ nest containing Dinarda Maerck- 
elii, of course Coleopterists will be very 
frequent in their attentions that way, 
and we have no doubt the occurrence 
in that neighbourhood of a few rarities 
among the Lepidoptera would influence 
in like manner the summer excursions 
of many of our Lepidopterists. 
The riches of that country have not 
been half explored: a hundred years 
hence much of what is now waste 
ground will be enclosed and the ento- 
mologists of that day will cast rather 
severe reflections on the supineness 
and idleness of the present generation, 
which neglects such glorious oppor- 
tunities. 
The wastes of Surrey, the Bagshot 
Sand, the Chalk and the Green Sand 
ought to be thoroughly explored. Rip- 
ley stands as a monument of what 
may be done in such a country; for 
“ what man has done, man may do 
again.” Mr. Stephens’ account of his 
doings there is as follows: — ■ 
“ As an instance of the facility with 
which novelties may be obtained by 
individual exertion, I may observe, that 
in the short space of forty days, between 
the middle of June and beginning of 
August, 1827 , I captured in the vicinity 
of Ripley above 2400 species of insects, 
exclusively of larvae, &c., or nearly one- 
fourth of our ascertained entomological 
productions, amongst which, although 
upon old explored ground, were about 
100 new species, not before in any col- 
lection, so far as I have inspected.” 
We are glad to hear that since the 
Guildford excursion some of the resi- 
dents there have imbibed a certain 
amount of furore , and the entomo- 
logical virus, which had long remained 
dormant in the system, has again burst 
forth, and promises ere long to produce 
highly beneficial results. Like other 
