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Cidaria reticulata and Hadena rectilinea Larva at Win- 

 dermere. — Yesterday I took a specimen of Cidaria reticulata 

 at Windermere. In 1856 the late T. H. Allis and I took 

 several specimens; from that time to the present (twenty 

 years) I have gone every year, and to no purpose. It must 

 be a rare insect. I must have gone at least fifty journeys, 

 and it is over fifty miles to the lake side from Preston ; (hen 

 I have to row myself across, another mile : so this specimen 

 has been hardly earned. The plant on which it is said to feed 

 (Noli-me-tangere) I have this time found in plenty. A week 

 or two ago I found a queer larva on the same plant, which 

 puzzled Mr. Buckler ; but from the last note I had from him it 

 appears to be Hadena reclilinea. 1 suspect as there is bilberry 

 near, that the nioth has dropped eggs just where she alighted. — 

 J. B. Hodgkinson ; 15, Spring Bank, Preston, An gust 1 1 , 1876. 



Lithosia sericea. — Last month 1 captured a few speci- 

 mens of this insect. I should be glad to hear if anyone has 

 met with this species in Cheshire this season .? Newman's 

 'British Moths' gives Cheshire and Lancashire as the only 

 counties where it has been observed. I have often enquired, 

 but so far have failed to hear of anyone who has found the 

 insect in Cheshire. — R. Kay; 2, Spring Street, Bury, 

 Lancashire, August 12, 1876. 



Hydrcecia petasitis. — A brother collector, having noted 

 a very likely place for H. petasitis, we agreed to attempt to 

 find the pupa by digging. During the past week we have 

 visited the place twice, (or about an hour and a half on each 

 occasion. The first time we each dug up about five dozen 

 pupae, and on the second occasion some three dozen, in 

 addition to finding a few larvas of the same species. We also 

 found one imago at rest, which we considered very early. — Ld, 



PS. — I am pleased to be able to add that the images began 

 to emerge on the 12th, and have appeared daily since; 

 almost invariably emerging during dusk and night. — it. K. 



Cossus ligniperda at Sugar. — Observing that Mr. H. T. 

 Dobson has called attention to C. ligniperda as a "sugar 

 visitor," I wish to state that scarcely a season passes without 

 my capturing one or two specimens of this insect at sugar. 

 Last July I caught two in one evening on sugared trees ; but 

 it has struck me as somewhat remarkable that every specimen 

 thus caught is a female. This fact has given rise to a doubt 



