176 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
figure is given in Mr. Stainton’s beautiful work, ‘The Natural 
History of the Tineina’ (vol. xi.). Cosmopteryx orichalcella is to 
be taken amongst the fescue-grass (Festuca pratensis), and will 
repay a diligent search. Space will not permit of a further list of 
Lepidoptera to be taken at Wicken, but I can confidently predict 
many pleasant surprises in store for the hard worker who has never 
before been to the fens. 
My experience of Wicken this year was confined to a visit of two 
days early in June, in company with Mr. Meek, who kindly showed 
me the localities in the fen for many of the best species. The 
weather was of the most unfortunate character a collector could 
well meet with ; the rain was frequent and heavy, and the wind was 
constant. The result was that we did not take a single lepi- 
dopterous imago in the fen, but our trouble in collecting various 
larvee was wellrepaid. I bred some very fine Peronea hastiana, with 
some of the rarer varieties. This species must, I think, be 
double-brooded, for my specimens were all out and set by the end 
of June. This is confirmed by other correspondents who have 
also bred it during the summer. At sugar we found many Noctue, 
but none of the rarer species. 
To the lot of few of us does it now occur to take several species 
new to our fauna in one season, but such was the case when Mr. 
Bond went to Wicken for the first time. This was, as I have 
already said, about 1850. In that year he added to the British list, 
I believe, Schanobius mucronellus, Anesychia funerella, which was 
only doubtfully British ; Nascia cilialis, which had not occurred for 
thirty years before. In fact, I believe Mr. Bond, who then lived at 
Cambridge, was the first entomologist who worked this fen with 
system, at any rate. He was frequently assisted by a man who 
lived at Fulbourne named Osborne. Mr. Doubleday used to have 
most of Osborne’s Lepidoptera, and Mr. Wollaston his Coleoptera. 
All the fen species were rare in those days, and the application of 
light was not used as an attraction for moths. 
Before closing this article I should say that another way 
to go to Wicken Fen is by Wicken village. This is reached from 
Soham Station on the Newmarket and Ely Railway; but Wicken 
village is some distance from the station. Accommodation may 
sometimes be obtained there, but I prefer the Waterbeach and 
Upware route, on account of its being a shorter railway journey 
from London, and, still better, you get a hearty welcome from the 
