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Cidaria reliculala 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 arare insect. I must have gone at least fifty journeys, 
and it is over fifty miles to the lake side from Preston; then 
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 rectilinea. | suspect as there is bilberry 
near, that the moth has dropped eggs just where she alighted.— 
J.B. Hodgkinson ; 15, Spring Bank, Preston, August 11, 1876. 
Lithosia sericea.—Last month | 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 Cheshirea—R. Kay; 2, Spring Street, Bury, 
Lancashire, August 12, 1876. 
Hydrecia 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, for about an hour and a half on each 
occasion. The first time we each dug up about five dozen 
pupx, and on the second occasion some three dozen, in 
addition to finding a few larva of the same species. We also 
found one imago at rest, which we considered very early.—Jd. 
PS.—I am pleased to be able to add that the imagos began 
to emerge on the 12th, and have appeared daily since; 
almost invariably emerging during dusk and night.—f. 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 
