226 LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



I pity from my soul a man who can either look on a bird merely as 

 a specimen, a dish, or an animal. It is like ourselves, but in many 

 respects how superior; a beautiful work of God's creation, aye, most 

 beautiful. I. ask but a calm review of the subject to confirm what I say. 

 I know I run the risk of being thought morbid in this matter. I am 

 content to be so regarded; but the disgust with which my constant contact . 

 with the world inspires me for everything human, renders it a positive 

 feast to be able to turn to something which has even so negative a quality 

 as mere harmlessncss. I go from a crowd of pollution and iniquity, and 

 find myself watching a pretty pair of my feathered friends, chirping in 

 connubial harmony, and tending their callow brood. The contrast, so 

 greatly unfavourable to humanity, that I fear I shall run my head against 

 a wall, to shut out the filthy picture that I must return to. The sage 

 has said, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard." I say, go to the woods, thou 

 grovelling sensualist, and see, if thou canst, the beauty, the happiness of 

 its tenants, and loathe thyself. 



Richmond Terrace, Westbourne Grove, July, 1858. 



LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA OCCURRING IN THE COUNTY 

 OF SUFFOLK. 



BY THE EEV. JOSEPH GEEENE, M.A., ASSISTED BY THE EEV. H. HAEPUB CEEWE, M.A., 



AND C. B. BEEE, ESQ. 



[The portions of these papers contributed by Mr. Crewe and Mr. Bree, are signed with the 

 initials C and B respectively. N.B. at the head of a paragraph signifies that the remarks 

 are made after those of Mr. Greene.] 



( Continued from page 208. J 



24. H. nictitans. — Common at sugar, and occasionally flying in the sunshine. 

 Variable. 



24.* N. typlta. — Occurs rarely at Thornham. (B.) 



N.B. — I met with seven or eight pupae, and two or three full-fed larvae 

 last week, July 20th., at Stowmarket, in the stem of Typha latifolia. 

 It is not however common in this neighbourhood. I have noticed that though 

 the larva feeds indiscriminately upon those plants that have flowers, and those 

 that have not, and will sometimes completely hollow out the flower-stalk; it 

 almost invariably forms its cocoon in a plant without a flower. The pupa 

 must be kept very moist, or you will not breed the perfect insect. It is 

 best, if possible, to cut off the stem with the pupa in it, but if it slips out 

 as it is very likely to do, the best plan is to lay it upon some damp earth, in 

 a tolerably close-fitting tin box. I have seen the pupa so low down in the 



