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We most heartily wish, then, a happy and prosperous New Year to all 

 Entomologists, whether our readers or not; and we will conclude these brief 

 remarks with the following quotation from the author of "Sea-side Studies," 

 in "Blackwood's Magazine" for October last; a writer whom we predict will 

 rank high among the first Naturalists of the present age. 



"The Naturalist may be anything, everything. He may yield to the charm 

 of simple observation; he may study the habits and habitats of animals, 

 and moralize on their ways; he may use them as a starting-point of laborious 

 research: he may carry his newly-observed facts into the highest region of 

 speculation; and whether roaming amid the lovely nooks of Nature in quest 

 of varied specimens, or fleeting the quiet hours in observation of his pets; 

 whether he make Natural History an amusement, or both amusement and 

 serious work, it will always afford him exquisite delight. From the school- 

 boy to the philosopher, all grades find in it something admirably suited to 

 their minds. It brings us into closer presence of the great mysteries of life; 

 and, while quickening our sense of the infinite marvels which surround the 

 simplest object, teaches us many and pregnant lessons which may help us 

 through our daily needs." 



"And of such truths 

 Each to itself must be the oracle." 



LIST OF LEPIDOPTERA OCCURRING IN THE COUNTY 



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

 are made after those of Mr. Greene.] 



Part II. — Heterocera. Division II. — Bombyces. 



1. Euchelia Jacobece. — Taken in this neighbourhood, but rarely. (B.) 

 Not uncommon at Woolpit, near Stowmarket, in the larva state. (C.) 



2. Deiopeia pidchella. — Taken once by Mr. Levett in Finborough Park. 

 It was brushed out of a fir-tree close to a stream of water. (B.) 



A pair were taken a few years since in the garden at Rougbam, near 

 Bury, by the gardener of Mr. Edward Bennet, and are in Mr. B.'s col- 

 lection. (C.) 



3. IAthosia rubricollis. — Very abundant at Playford. The larva, which 

 is very subject to Ichneumons, may be found from the middle of August 

 till nearly the end of October, though, at this late period, it is nearly 

 sure to be stung. It feeds upon various lichens, having, however, a deci 

 ded preference to those growing on fir trees. In the "Manual" it is 

 stated that all the species of this genus fly in the evening. Rubricollis 



