THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 27.] SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1857. [Price 1 d. 
Endkomis Veusicolora (Kentish Glory). 
See page 3. 
THE SALLOWS. 
Now the sallow season is at its height: 
in some few forward places it may be a 
little passe. Moths fly in troops to the 
blooming sallow bushes, whilst collectors 
go trooping after them. In clays of yore 
we had our moss-troopers ; now we have 
our wio^A-troopers. The moisture-living 
sallows often grow in such places as we 
should fancy would have been very con- 
genial to the ancient moss-troopers, and 
no doubt many a nice sallow bush escapes 
unvisited by the prying entomologist 
simply from the inaccessibility of its 
situation. 
We often think, when rolling along a 
railway at this season of the year, and we 
survey the miles upon miles of blooming 
sallows growing by the side of the rail- 
way, in the little holes and pools that 
have been made in the construction of 
the embankment on which we are so 
cosily riding, of the immense number of 
sallow bushes which have never been yet 
visited by the entomologist, and we won- 
der sometimes what new treasures in 
some of the less frequented parts of the 
country may not some day be brought to 
light : where is Tceniocampa Populeti 
abundant F Perhaps there is a spot, only 
no one knows where it is. In how many 
fresh localities has not Tceniocampa leu- 
cographa yet to occur ? 
The Hymenopterists, too, view the sal- 
low bushes with longing eyes, but they 
seek them only by day, and unfortunately 
fewer entomologists have the chance of 
paying diurnal visits to the sallows than 
have opportunities of visiting them by 
night. But as the number of collectors 
of Hymenopiera increases, no doubt the 
number of those who have opportunities 
of visiting the sallows by day will also 
increase: moreover, the sallows are gene- 
rally in full feather at Easter (for is not 
the Sunday before Easter called Palm 
Sunday ? and are not the blooming 
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