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LEPIDOPTERA. 
feed within the stems of the common reed, and the pupa, 
which is remarkably elongated, is exceedingly active, moving 
up and down the stems of the reed with great rapidity.* 
Some account of the habits of the insect is given bv Mr. 
Harding, in the Zoologist for 1850, page 2931. 
Drepana Sicula, W. V. (Platypteryx Sicula, Doubl.). 
Only a single specimen of this species has been met with in 
this country; it was taken in Leigh Wood, near Bristol, the 
end of May, 1837, and is in the collection of the Rev. 
Henry Burney. According to Treitschke, the larva feeds, 
in May and June, on oaks and birches. 
Cerura bicuspis, Borkhausen; first recorded by Mr. 
Doubleday, in the Zoologist for 1847, page 1863. “ A male 
specimen of a Cerura , new to Britain, was captured near 
Preston, by Mr. James Cooper; it was found upon an 
alder, having just emerged from its cocoon; there is little 
doubt of its being the genuine bicuspis of Hiibner; the 
specimens hitherto so-called in this country being merely 
furcula; from this species it is totally distinct. Mr. Cooper 
most kindly presented this fine species to me.” A second 
specimen is in the collection of Mr. Hodgkinson, who re¬ 
cords the capture of the specimen near Preston, on an alder 
tree (vide Zoologist, 1849, page 2500). 
The specimen announced by Mr. Weaver, as Clostera 
anachoreta (see Zoologist, 1852, page 3399), is stated by 
Mr. Doubleday, in the same periodical (page 3715), to be 
only reclusa. 
Notodonta tritophus, W. V.; first recorded as British 
“ l '; c Entomologist, page 385, by Mr. Douglas, who found 
the larva on an aspen, in Essex, and bred the perfect insect 
on the lOtli of August, 1842. A second specimen, which 
was taken in Scotland, is in the collection of Mr. Buxton: 
it was exhibited at the meeting of the Entomological Society 
in December, 1852. An ichneumoned larva of this species 
