THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 128.] SATURDAY, MxiRCH 12, 1859 [Price Id. 
THE SALLOWS. 
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Owing to tlie mildness of the season 
the sallows are in so forward a state 
that many are now in full bloom. 
Some of our readers think less 
lovingly of the sallows than formerly, 
because the common things, which 
once were prizes, they no longer want ; 
and somehow or other the rarer things, 
Leucographa and Rubiginea, they cannot 
meet with. 
Our object on the present occasion 
is to call attention to the number of 
species of Depressaria, or Flat-bodies, 
which are to be found, on mild spring 
evenings, amongst the blooming sal- 
lows. 
Many persons resolve at the be- 
ginning of a 'new year, to devote 
more attention to the Tineina, and 
such are no doubt anxious to obtain 
rapidly as many new species as pos- 
sible. In the ‘ Entomologist’s Com- 
panion,’ second edition, we have enu- 
merated several species of Depressaria, 
viz. Arenella, Alstrcemeriana, purpurea, 
ocellana, applana and Heracliana, as 
“ flying along hedges at dusk, and 
sitting on them after dark ; also at 
sugar and on sa/Zozt;-blossoms.” But 
no doubt in different localities many 
other species of Depressaria might now 
be found after hybernation, and as game 
is apt not to be too plentiful just now, 
few who are commencing the Micro- 
Lepidoptera will be disposed to turn 
up their noses at hybernated specimens 
of a Flat-body in March, because there 
is a prospect of their rearing the same 
species from the larva in .luly. But 
many species are not rare in the per- 
fect state, such as Purpurea and Ocel- 
lana, of which the larv'te are scarcely 
known to us. The first-named species 
has indeed been bred by Dr. Colquhoun, 
but the latter insect has, we believe, 
never been bred in this country, and 
though we have several times receii^ed 
larvae which were intended to produce 
Depressaria Ocellana, they always pro- 
duced something else ! 
If our readers throughout the country 
will just notice how many species of 
Depressaria they meet with this spring, 
we entertain no doubt that they might 
enable us to display a far more attrac- 
tive bill of fare next year, and there 
is one species, Yeatiana, which we never 
saw alive, but which seems to occur in 
considerable plenty in some localities, 
the habits of which ought to be the 
object of especial study, with the view 
of discovering the larva. Where the 
insect abounds no doubt the food of 
the larva occurs, and if it be searched 
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