130 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
“what shall I give you to take me to the spot?” ‘ No!” said 
the man, “I intend to take a lot up to London.” Standish then 
offered him five shillings to take him to the place, but the man 
would not divulge the locality, even for a promise of two shillings 
for each insect captured. ‘The landlord, however, told Standish 
where the man worked, and he was successful in finding the place, 
and took a fine lot of P. hippothoe. It soon got wind among the 
folks at the Fen that they were worth two shillings each in 
London, and two men came from Cambridge and secured a large 
quantity, which they took to London in boxes full, and sold them 
at sixpence each. I went down about three years after, and got 
some of the larve. They appeared to be very local, and most 
numerous where their food-plant—viz. the water-dock—was most 
abundant. ‘I'he larva was collected by all persons, young and 
old. I bought two dozen larvee of an old woman for ninepence, 
from which I bred some fine specimens, and sold them at one 
shilling each. I wish I had them now. Mr. Cole, at Holme Fen, 
took a large quantity of them. His back-yard was close to their 
locality. The last time I was there Mr. Cole said he had not seen 
one for some years. ‘There was the food-plant in plenty on the 
same spot, but no larve. They had been too closely hunted for. 
However, I solaced myself by taking Nonagria ulve in Cole’s 
stack-yard. As soon as it got dark they came out of the cut 
reeds and had a fly. They ran up the inside of the reeds like 
mice, but how they turned round to get back I cannot make out. 
I took some nice varieties. 
In 1847-8 Mr. Doubleday was down in the Fens, and found 
Zeuzera arunduis in the dykes. He told aman he employed, who 
lived there, to look after them. He did so, and found the pupe. 
I went down the next year, and found the imago. An account of 
them I published in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1850, as stated in the 
first volume of the ‘ Kntomologist’s Annual,’ and that is the only 
account I have seen. About this time sugaring was discovered 
by Mr. Doubleday, who, in his vocation as a grocer, noticed that 
the moths swarmed round his sugar hogsheads in the back yard. 
There was a great desire among working entomologists to know 
how it was made, but the secret was retained by a few. All kinds 
of scents were tried, but were not found of much use. A man of 
the name of Courtney made some up, and sold it at one shilling 
and sixpence per pint. This discovery caused many rare things 
to become common. Acronycta ligustyi was a rare moth, and 
