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Senta maritima (ulvce), Acidalia emutaria, and Agdintis Bennelti in East 

 Suffolk. — All three of these insects being somewhat local, a notice of their occur- 

 rence here this year might be of interest. The first specimen of Senta maritima 

 was secured on July loth, flying at early dusk along some reeds in a marsh ditch, 

 close to the banks of the river Deben. Further search on the two following evenings 

 afforded four more, and another was taken on July 25th ; I saw others but. failed to 

 get near them, owing to the swampy nature of the ground. Most of the examples 

 obtained were more or less worn, and worthless as cabinet specimens, and had to be 

 released ; evidently a fortnight earlier would have been a better time. The same 

 may be said of Acidalia emutaria, which I captured on the same dales. I was too 

 late to obtain the species in good condition, and of the several specimens netted 1 

 only kept three. Agdi.ttis Bennetti flew into my room on July 18th attracted by 

 the light, four specimens the same evening, two of these promptly destroyed them- 

 selves in the lamp, and the other two 1 boxed. There is an abundance of its food 

 plant (Statice limonium) on the saltings not far from my house. Senta maritima 

 seems to have a preference for fresh water rather than salt, at any rate, I discovered 

 its real home here is amongst some reeds standing in water, and bordering a fresh 

 water stream, with an alder earr hard by. Acidalia emutaria. on the other hand, 

 kept to the river side, and was confined to one small spot on the river wall where 

 there is plenty of marram grass. It was easy of capture, sitting on the stems of 

 the grasses at dusk in company with dozens of Acidalia dilutaria. — A. P. Waller, 

 Hemley Rectory, Woodbridge : August 30//*, 1902. 



Eupithecia innotata at Aldeburgh.—On September 10th, 1900, when beating 

 mugwort for larvae of Cticuflia absinthii in the neighbourhood of Aldeburgh, I 

 obtained a few larva; of E. succenturiata and several of what I took to be E. 

 absinthiata, and the following June bred several of the latter and one of the rare 

 E. innotata. I do not remember having noticed any difference in the larva?, which 

 perhaps is excusable, as the larva? of E. absinthiata vary so much.— Gervase F. 

 Mathew, Dovcrcourt : September lbth, 1902. 



Crambus fascelinellus at L) 'over -court. — On August 15th I took a fine example 

 of this local species on the sandhills near here. Mr. W. H. Harwood,of Colchester, 

 tells me that he took it here several years ago, but the capture was not recorded. 

 —Id. 



Panchlora exoleta, Klug (Blattida:), imported into Scot land.— Foreign species 

 of Blattidce. have often been received as involuntary migrants in these islands, and 

 have sometimes obtained record m entomological publications. Mr. Robert Service 

 of Maxwelltown. Dumfries, recently forwarded me a specimen of a beautiful species, 

 Panchlora exoleta, Klug, which he found in a living condition among some bananas, 

 probably derived from the West Indies, from which large quantities of the fruit 

 are now being received in this country. The insect had died before its despatch 

 from Scotland, but Mr. Service remarked that with a little care it would no doubt 

 have lived in one of his warm horticultural houses.— W. L. Distant, Steine House, 

 South Norwood : September, 1902. 



