108 LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



and even the blue vault of heaven itself displays its silver orbs, purer, 

 brighter in the wild than in the city. There is nothing above or around 

 that will not repay us a thousand times for our attention! 



But my readers will say, "what is all this to Suncinghill?" I answer 

 much, for it was this which led me to study its features, and to find an 

 inexhaustible fund of pleasure, which never fadeth amid its sweet scenes. 

 Without this it had possessed little interest for me, and I would lead 

 those, who as yet know not this pleasure, to study their own native regions, 

 and whether they give their thus acquired knowledge to the world or not, 

 not to leave that which they can have "without money and without price" 

 unsought. 



(To be continued.) 



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LIST OP LEPIDOPTERA OCCURRING IN THE COUNTY 



OP SUFFOLK. 



BY THE REV. JOSEPH GREENE, M.A., ASSISTED BY THE REV. H.HARPUR CREWE, M.A., 



AND C. R. BREE, ESQ. 



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

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

 are made after those of Mr. Greene.] 



C Continued fi om page 87.) 



58. N. eamelina. — Common. 



N.B. — The larva of this insect may always be distinguished from its con- 

 geners by the two red tubercles on the eleventh segment. A beautiful rose- 

 coloured variety is not unfrequently found, which an inexperienced collector 

 would at once pronounce to be the larva of a different species. I have however 

 kept these larvae separate, and there is not the slightest difference in the perfect 

 insect. M. Duponchel remarks that this variety only occurs in the autumn 

 brood. The larva is polyphagous. I have, I think, taken it upon all our 

 British forest trees, except the ash, yew, fir, holly, and the horse and sweet 

 chesnut. In confinement I can most positively assert that it is double-brooded; 

 the perfect insect appearing in May and June, and again in August. When- 

 ever I have kept the eggs found in May, the larvae have produced the perfect 

 insect in August. My worthy correspondent, Mr. Harding, of Stapleton, states 

 that out of a brood of twenty-five larva?, hatched this last spring, every single 

 pupa emerged in August. I have not the shadow of a doubt that the same 

 result occurs in a state of nature to all or part of the spring brood, and that 

 the eggs laid by these August moths, produce larvse full-fed in September, 

 October, and November, which pass the winter in the pupa state. I took but 

 little care of my larva?, often half-starved them, and kept them in a room 



