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SUFFOLK LEPIDOPTERA IN 1905. 

 BY THE KEV. E. N. BLOOMFIELD, M.A., F.E.S. 



Although 1 am not able to record many additions to our County 

 list, yet a good number of interesting species have been taken. For 

 these I am indebted to the same correspondents as last year. The 

 Rev. A. P. Waller records captures at liemley, Waldringfield, and 

 Shingle Street ; Mr. H. Lingwood, at Needham Market and JJuu- 

 wich ; Dr. Crowfoot, at Beccles. Mr. Claude Morley has sent me a 

 few good .species from the Suffolk Broads, while Mrs. Mann, of 

 Bungay, has sent me a long list of species taken, for the most part, 

 in a moth trap in her own garden, which is close to the VVaveuey 

 Kiver. 



I can only mention two Ehopalocera, Argynnis paphia, L., Bungay, in Mrs. 

 Mann's garden, a species which is rare in Norfolk and the northern part of Suffolk ; ^ 

 and Vanessa antiopa, L., taken at Waldringfield, September 2b»th, in battered 

 condition. 



BoMBYCES. — Ino statices, L., at Lowestoft, Lithosia stramineola^ Dbl., and 

 Spilosoma urticx, Esp., at Bungay ; Mr. Gr. P. Hope took a few Setina irrorella, 

 Clerck, at Shingle Street, and found the larvae of Bombyx castrensis, L., very 

 abundant at one spot feeding on Flantago maritima, Mr. Waller says he could 

 have taken hundreds. Neither of these tv\o species have been met with lately in 

 Suffolk, the last record being by Mr. Hele in " Notes about Aldeburgh, 187U." 

 Stauropus fagi, L., two larvae, which died, and CLostera curtula, L., larv» on 

 aspen, are recorded from Needham Market. 



NoCTU^. — Leucania stramineay Tr., and L. phragmitidis, Hb., were both fairly 

 common at Hemley, where Mr. Waller took the buff form of L. favicoLor, Barr., 

 and some good varieties ot benta maritima, Tausch. Noctua castanea, Esp., were 

 taken at Dunwich, N. stigmatica, Hb., and Teihea subtusa, F., Hemley, at sugar, 

 and Dianthascia nana, Eott., at Bungay, rather common at the flowers of Bladder 

 Campion. 



Geometry.- -<Se/e»ia lunaria, Schiff., Acidalia rubiginata, Hufn., and A. sub- 

 sericeata, Haw., at Bungay ; A. emutaria, Hb., at Hemley, very local. Mmmeiesia 

 unifasciata, Haw., and Mupithecia pygmxata, Hb., at Bungay, E. togata, Hb., at 

 Dunwich, Cidaria sagittata, F., three on Thaiictrum in Mrs. Mann's garden, 

 Coremia quadrifasciarla, Clerck, several, and Chesias I'ufata, F,, in moth trap in 

 April, both at Hemley. 



Pybalides, &c. — Rerminia crlbralis, Hb., Hemley, in the marshes, Aventia 

 Jlexula, F., at Bungay ; Fyralis costalis, F., eight taken at sugar, and Scoparia 

 truncicolella, Stn., also at Bungay. 



Crambi. — Crambus contaminellus, Hb., Hemley and Bungay ; Romueosoma 

 sinuella, F., R. binsevella, Hb., and R. nebulella, all at Bungay, the latter also at 

 Hemley. Ephestia elutella v. roxburghi, E. ficuleUa, Barr., Rhodophaea adv^nelLuy 

 Zinck., and B. suavella, Zinck., all at Bungay. 



