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feed within the stems of the common reed, and the pupa, 

 which is remarkably elongated, is exceedingly active, moving 

 up and down the stems of the reed with great rapidity." 

 Some account of the habits of the insect is given by Mr. 

 Harding, in the Zoologist for 1850, page 2931. 



Drepana Sicula, W. V. (Platypteryx Sicula, Donbl.). 

 Only a single specimen of this species has been met with in 

 this country ; it was taken in Leigh Wood, near Bristol, the 

 end of May, 1837, and is in the collection of the Rev. 

 Henry Burney. According to Treitschke, the larva feeds, 

 in May and June, on oaks and birches. 



Cerura bicuspis, Borkhausen ; first recorded by Mr. 

 Doubleday, in the Zoologist for 1847, page 1863. " A male 

 specimen of a Cerura, new to Britain, was captured near 

 Preston, by Mr. James Cooper; it was found upon an 

 alder, having just emerged from its cocoon ; there is little 

 doubt of its being the genuine bicuspis of Hiibner ; the 

 specimens hitherto so-called in this country being merely 

 furcula ; from this species it is totally distinct. Mr. Cooper 

 most kindly presented this fine species to me." A second 

 specimen is in the collection of Mr. Hodgkinson, who re- 

 cords the capture of the specimen near Preston, on an alder 

 tree (vide Zoologist, 1849, page 2500). 



The specimen announced by Mr. Weaver, as Clostera 

 anachoreta (see Zoologist, 1852, page 3399), is stated by 

 Mi*. Doubleday, in the same periodical (page 3715), to be 

 only reclusa. 



Notodonta tritophus, W. V. ; first recorded as British 

 in the Entomologist, page 385, by Mr. Douglas, who found 

 the larva on an aspen, in Essex, and bred the perfect insect 

 on the 10th of August, 1842. A second specimen, which 

 was taken in Scotland, is in the collection of Mr. Buxton ; 

 it was exhibited at the meeting of the Entomological Society 

 in December, 1852. An ichneumoned larva of this species 



