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I cannot remember. It emerged August 5, 1876. — [Rev.] E. 

 H. Frere ; Horham Rectory, Wickham Market, Suffolk. 



[The drawing sent by the Rev. E. Hanbury Frere is a well 

 executed sketch of Sphinx pinaslri. — Ed.] 



CiDARiA RETICULATA Bred. — I have at last succeeded in 

 rearing a gorgeous specimen of this insect from a larva I 

 obtained last autumn. This is, I believe, the first time that 

 it has been bred in this country. I had almost given up all 

 hopes of success after the many long journeys T have had to 

 obtain the larva. — J. B. Hodgkinson; Preston, July, 1877. 



Rare Lepidoptera in Cambridgeshire Fens. — While 

 collecting Lepidoptera in the Cambridgeshire fens, during 

 June last, I captured a perfect male Hydrilla palustris, and 

 two specimens of Bankia argentula. 1 also took a fine series 

 of Macrogaster arundinis, Melinna Jlammea, and of Nascia 

 cilialis. I have also bred Gelechia morosa from larvae 

 collected there. — A. B. Earn; Dartford, July 10, 1877. 



Hydrilla palustris at Wicken Fen. — At about 12.30 

 a.m. on the 12tli June, when leaving Wicken Fen after a 

 night's collecting, a Noclua not familiar to me crawled up 

 the glass of my lantern whilst it was resting on the ground ; 

 it proved, on examination when I reached home, to be a 

 male specimen of Hydrilla palustris in fair condition. — 

 A. H. Jones; Shrublands, Eltham, July 7, 1877. 



Heliothis scutosa. — In common, I have no doubt, with 

 many of your readers, I have read with much interest the 

 paper, in the 'Entomologist' for May, by Mr. E. A. Fitch, 

 noticing the occurrence in the South of England of two 

 specimens of Heliothis scutosa, and referring to those taken 

 in Cumberland between forty and fifty years ago. As it 

 seems probable this rare species will now take its place 

 permanently in British lists, it seems only reasonable that 

 whatever credit may attach to the first discovery should be 

 distinctly awarded where it is due. I thought some one 

 better qualified would have taken up the subject in the 

 'Entomologist;' but as this has not been done I give below 

 what I believe will be found to be the correct account of the 

 capture of the Cumberland specimens. The first known 

 British speciuien of H. scutosa was taken in July, 1833, 

 near Dalston, a village in the iuimediate neighbourhood of 

 Carlisle, by Mr. James Cooper, then and for some years 



